Mstyslav Chernov

Mstyslav Chernov is a Ukrainian war correspondent, filmmaker, photographer, and novelist known for his coverage of the Ukrainian revolution, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the wars in Iraq, Syria, and Nagorno-Karabakh, and Taliban rule in Afghanistan after U.S. withdrawal, as well as for his art installations and exhibitions. Chernov is an Associated Press (AP) journalist and the president of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPF).

In addition to being nominated for the Livingston Award for his work on the civil unrest in Belarus in 2021 and Rory Peck Award for his coverage of the Battle of Mosul, he has won several prestigious awards, including two Royal Television Society Awards for his coverage of the downing of flight MH17, and the Georgy Gongadze Prize, the Knight International Journalism Award, and the DW Freedom of Speech Award for documenting the siege in Mariupol as one of the few remaining international journalists in that city, as captured in his AP article "20 Days in Mariupol: The Team that Documented the City’s Agony," as well as the AP and FRONTLINE documentary special 20 Days in Mariupol. He was named Ukrainian Photographer of the Year in 2013 and 2015. He was born in Eastern Ukraine and is typically based in Germany.