It is with deep sorrow that we announce that on May 17, 2026, the heart of the outstanding Ukrainian scientist Yuriy Petrovych Zaychenko stopped beating. It is difficult to put into words the magnitude of this loss for Ukrainian science, the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI), colleagues, students, and everyone who had the honor of knowing Yuriy Petrovych. We extend our sincere condolences to his family, loved ones, friends, and students.
It has been reported that Yevhen Demyanenko (August 7, 1990 – April 22, 2023) has been killed in action. He graduated from the Institute of Special Communications and Information Protection at the National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI” in 2012.
🕯 Our university community is once again in mourning. News has emerged of the death of a KPI graduate who was defending Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Pavlo Muntian (February 15, 1982 — August 10, 2022).
🕯It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our university student Roman Andriychuk was killed in the war
(02.02.2005 — 12.11.2023)
😢 Our university community has suffered another loss. It has been reported that another student of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Artem Krulikovsky, has died.
🕯 Maria Bigun (Leut), a graduate of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, was killed in the war (August 28, 2000 — February 21, 2026)
🕯Kyiv Polytechnic student Daria Lopatina (July 8, 2006 — September 2, 2025) was killed in action.
🕯 Volodymyr Muzh (May 12, 2001 – February 5, 2026), a graduate of our university, died in the war.
🕯 The Kyiv Polytechnic community is once again in mourning. On February 15, 2026, KPI graduate Denis “Fox” Gordeev, a lieutenant and commander of a platoon of unmanned aerial vehicles of the 156th Mechanized Brigade, was killed while performing a combat mission in Donetsk Oblast. He was 36 years old.
We are sad to announce that Dmytro Volodymyrovych Zvezda (January 25, 2005 – November 20, 2025) has been killed in the war.
