AT least 40 British heroes have died fighting for Ukraine, according to a tribute unveiled in London today.
The memorial lays bare the scale Britain’s sacrifice since Russia unleashed its full scale invasion.
A London exhibition honours at least forty British heroes who died fighting for Ukraine
The tribute includes names and call signs, such as Paul Urey and Katherine Mielniczuk
Callum Tindal-Draper, 22, from Gunnislake, Cornwall, was killed defending a lookout in November 2024
The roll of honour is many times higher than previously thought.
The list includes 37 names and the call signs of three volunteers known only as Vulcan, Scouse and Ghost.
Among those honoured were Paul Urey, 45, who was captured and tortured to death by Russia and hero medic Katherine “Kasia” Mielniczuk, 26, the only British woman known to have died in the war.
The list was revealed by Kyiv’s War Museum at its Indomitable Ukraine exhibition.
The exhibit is titled ‘British Volunteer fighters who perished defending Ukraine against Russia’s aggression’.
The list also included Dan Burke, 36, Sam Newey, 22, and Chris Garrett, 40, who were friends of The Sun newspaper and hosted our reporting teams on dangerous frontline assignments.
Burke, a former paratrooper, founded the Dark Angels and was later killed by an Australian comrade who later fled the country, his in quest in Manchester heard.
Newey, 22, had followed his older brother Dan to Ukraine and was killed in Aug 2023.
Garrett, a dad-of-one, was a bomb disposal expert who founded the charity Prevail Ukraine and was killed by an explosion in May.
The exhibit also included a pipe and sketch book that belonged to hero Callum Tindal-Draper, 22, from Gunnislake, Cornwall, who was killed defending a lookout in November 2024.
A sketch drawn two weeks before he died appeared to show another fighter with the call sign “Dove”.
One of the names on the list had been mysteriously covered with black tape.
The list also includes Jordan Chadwick, 31, whose body was found in a reservoir with his hands tied behind his back.
Dmytro Hainetdinov, deputy of head of Ukraine’s war museum, said they had originally thought the soldier was dead but he later turned up as a Russian prisoner.
He said: “Our message is that every single name on this list is a huge loss.”
Former British soldier James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, was captured fighting inside Russia’s Kursk province in November and sentenced to 19 years in prison.
The exhibition is open at the Vinyl Factory, in London’s West End, from Sept 24 to 29.
It was due to be officially opened by General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the former commander of Ukraine’s forces who now ambassador to the UK.
It comes as Ukraine claimed to have turned the tide on the bloody eastern front in a brutal counter-offensive.
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Kyiv’s top general Oleksandr Syrskyi said his troops had clawed back some 60 square miles since August — and forced Putin’s invaders to abandon positions in another 70 square miles near Pokrovsk.
He boasted Russian forces had been mauled, with 1,500 killed in action, another 1,000 wounded and at least 12 tanks blown apart.
“Control has been restored in seven settlements and nine more have been cleared of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups,” he said.
Syrskyi added his troops were still pushing forward, claiming: “In the past 24 hours alone the enemy have lost 65 servicemen, 43 of them killed in action, along with 11 pieces of equipment.”
The wrecked kit included artillery guns, drones and even a quad bike used in assaults.
Since the counter-attack began, Ukraine says Russia has lost almost 2,700 soldiers, more than half of them killed, plus scores of tanks and armoured vehicles.
The gains came after a shock Russian breakthrough in August threatened to sever a key supply route, forcing Kyiv’s troops to scramble before hitting back hard.
But Russia lashed out with a blitz on Zaporizhzhia that killed three civilians — two women aged 40 and 79 and a 77-year-old man.
Kyiv also claimed to have wiped out three of the “Butchers of Bucha” in revenge drone strikes last month, targeting Russian troops accused of the 2022 massacre where civilians were executed, tortured and raped.
The fresh momentum comes as President Zelensky met with Donald Trump in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Trump told Nato countries to “shoot down” Russian aircraft if they breach allied airspace – but stopped short of promising automatic US support if Moscow strikes back.
Speaking at a press conference, the President said Nato members “shouldn’t hesitate” to act against Russian incursions.