Journalist Maksim Levin Killed In Ukraine

Maksim Levin, a photographer and videographer who was working for a Ukrainian news website and was a long-time contributor to Reuters, was killed while covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

He leaves behind his wife and four children.

His body was found in a village north of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on April 1, the news website LB.ua where he worked said on Saturday.

Levin, born in 1981, was a documentary film maker who had contributed to Reuters’ coverage of the country since 2013.

He had been working in the village of Huta Mezhyhirska. There had been heavy shelling in that area.

The prosecutor general’s office in Ukraine said Levin was “killed by servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces with two shots from small arms”. This could not be independently verified.

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John Pullman, Reuters’ global managing editor for visuals, said: “We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Maksim Levin, a long-time contributor to Reuters, in Ukraine.”

“Maks has provided compelling photos and video from Ukraine to Reuters since 2013. His death is a huge loss to the world of journalism. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.”

No fewer than 13 civilian journalists or media workers have been killed in the line of duty during the Russo-Ukrainian War as of 2 April 2022.

Six have been Russian, four Ukrainian, one Italian, one American, and one Irish.

Some of them are: Andrea Rocchelli and Andrei Mironov, Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin, Anatoly Klyan, Andrey Stenin, Serhiy Nikolayev, Yevhenii Sakun, Brent Renaud, Pierre Zakrzewski and Oleksandra Kuvshynova.