The photographer and Ukrainian documentary filmmaker Maks Levinmissing for more than two weeks, was found dead near Kievreported on Saturday the adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency Andriy Yermak.
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Ukrainian photojournalist Maks Levin killed while covering war
He disappeared in the zone of hostilities on March 13 in the kyiv region (the Ukrainian capital, which faced a prolonged encirclement attempt by Russian troops,” the adviser said on Telegram.
On April 1, his body was found near the village of Guta Mezhyguirska,” it added.
Maksim (better known by his diminutive Maks) Levin, 40, “was unarmed and was killed by two shots from small arms fired by soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces,” the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office denounced in a statement.
The Prosecutor’s Office reported that it opened an investigation into the case, for “violation of the laws and customs of war.”
The reporter, a father of four children, collaborated with various Ukrainian and international media.
In 2014, at the beginning of the war once morest pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, he managed to get out of Ilovaisk, a city surrounded from the southeast where hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers died in a few days.
He was unarmed, wearing a vest with the inscription ‘Press’ and was killed, along with five other journalists since the start of the war in #Ukraine,” wrote the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
He was unarmed and wearing a press jacket. Photographer Max Levin was killed like five other journalists since the start of the war in #Ukraine. RSF sends its condolences to his family. Targeting journalists is a war crime. https://t.co/Wq17toKK7X
– RSF (@RSF_inter) April 2, 2022
Several Ukrainian and Western journalists have been killed and dozens injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24.
At least three of them perished in northeast kyiv, where fighting between Ukrainian forces and the Russian army intensified, before Russian forces withdrew in recent days from several towns in the area.
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