According to preliminary information, the journalist “unarmed” would have been reached by “two shots” of Russian soldiers.
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Three weeks that we had no news of him. Maks Levine, the veteran Ukrainian photographer and documentalist, was found dead after the withdrawal of Russian troops from territory near kyiv. “He disappeared in the zone of hostilities on March 13 in the kyiv region. On April 1, his body was found near the village of Gouta Mezhyguirska”a few dozen kilometers north of the capital, the head of the presidential administration Andriï Iermak said on Saturday, April 2.
According to the Ukrainian NGO IMI (Institute of Mass Information) citing preliminary information from the General Prosecutor’s Office, the journalist “unarmed” would have been reached by “two shots” of Russian soldiers.
Photojournalist Max Levine was found dead – the documentary filmmaker had disappeared on the front line near Kyiv more than three weeks ago.
Four children, his domestic partner, and his elderly parents were left without him.
Photo: Facebook/Maks Levin pic.twitter.com/ykabj9ajfM
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Aged 40 and father of four sons, Maks Levine collaborated with many Ukrainian and international media. In 2014, at the start of kyiv’s war against Russian separatists, supported by Moscow in eastern Ukraine, he managed to get out of Ilovaisk, a city in the south-east then surrounded, where hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in a few days.
Several Ukrainian and Western journalists have been killed and dozens more injured in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24. At least three of them died in northeast kyiv where fighting raged between Ukrainian forces and the Russian army, which has retreated in recent days and abandoned dozens of villages around the capital.