Missing Journalist Max Levin was killed by Russian Military

[Donkees]

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Photojournalist Maksym Levin, who disappeared while performing journalistic duties in March in the Kyiv region, has been found dead. This was reported to the Institute of Mass Media in the Office of the Prosecutor General.

Police found the body of a photojournalist on April 1. The Vyshhorod District Prosecutor's Office is conducting criminal proceedings for violating the laws and customs of war (Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

According to LB.ua , where Max worked for a long time, he and Alexei Chernyshov, a military and former photographer, went to document the consequences of Russian aggression. The fate of Oleksiy Chernyshov is currently unknown.

As IMI reported, photojournalist Maksym Levin disappeared on the front line in the Vyshhorod district near Kyiv , where he was performing his professional duties and covering the war. The last time he got in touch was on March 13.

Maxim Levin was born in 1981 in the Kyiv region. He has worked as a photojournalist, documentary photographer and cameraman for many Ukrainian and international publications, collaborated with Reuters, BBC, TRT World, Associated Press, LB.ua, Hromadske. His photos were published by such publications as the Wall Street Journal, TIME, Break.

https://imi.org.ua/news/fotozhurnalista-maksa-levina-vbyly-rosijski-vijskovi-prokuratura-i44794

[littlemissmartypants]

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[NCjack]

4. +1

[2naSalit]

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[Walleye]

3. As a retired photojournalist all I can say is, god dammit!

Guns versus cameras, immoral. I never covered a war, but I was in a lot of dangerous situation and hostility just makes it so much worse. So I’m glad to have survived

[pazzyanne]

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[ms liberty]

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[oldsoftie]

7. Standard procedure for Russians for decades. No surprise.

[Roy Rolling]

8. Accurate War Information

It’s never a good sign that an army is being truthful when their main mission is murdering war reporters.

[Glorfindel]

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[COL Mustard]

10. And yet another example of a Russian war crime

The ICC will be really busy when this is all over.

[highplainsdem]

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[bronxiteforever]

12. RIP Max. Truth seeker.

[FakeNoose]

13. It sounds like he was targeted while doing his job?

Rest in Peace Maxim Levin

[Donkees]

14. According to preliminary findings ...

The prosecutor's office said that, according to preliminary findings, Levin, “was fatally shot twice with small-arms fire, by servicemen" with the Russian military.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-war-photographer-levin-killed/31782629.html

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[Marthe48]

15. R.I.P.

another victim of the madman.