Ukrainian photographer and documentary filmmaker Maks Levin, who had been missing for more than two weeks, was found dead near kyiv, reported this Saturday the adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency, Andriy Yermak.
“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.
“April 1, his body was found near the village of Guta Mezhyguirska”he added.
Maksim (better known by his diminutive Maks) Levin, 40, “was unarmed and was killed by two small-arms shots fired by soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces,” the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
The Prosecutor’s Office announced that it opened a investigation into the case, for “violation of the laws and customs of war”.
The reporter, father of four children, collaborated with various Ukrainian and international media.
In 2014, at the beginning of the war against pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, 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, he was wearing a vest with the inscription ‘Press’ and they killed him, as well as five other journalists since the beginning of the war in #Ukraine,” wrote the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Several Ukrainian and Western journalists have been killed and dozens have been injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24.
At least three of them perished in northeast kyiv, where the fighting between the Ukrainian forces and the Russian army intensified, before the Russian forces withdrew in the last days from several towns in the area.
Ukrainian photographer and documentary filmmaker Maks Levin, who had been missing for more than two weeks, was found dead near kyiv, reported this Saturday the adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency, Andriy Yermak.
“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.
“April 1, his body was found near the village of Guta Mezhyguirska”he added.
Maksim (better known by his diminutive Maks) Levin, 40, “was unarmed and was killed by two small-arms shots fired by soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces,” the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
The Prosecutor’s Office announced that it opened a investigation into the case, for “violation of the laws and customs of war”.
The reporter, father of four children, collaborated with various Ukrainian and international media.
In 2014, at the beginning of the war against pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, 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, he was wearing a vest with the inscription ‘Press’ and they killed him, as well as five other journalists since the beginning of the war in #Ukraine,” wrote the NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Several Ukrainian and Western journalists have been killed and dozens have been injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24.
At least three of them perished in northeast kyiv, where the fighting between the Ukrainian forces and the Russian army intensified, before the Russian forces withdrew in the last days from several towns in the area.
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