Maks Levin, photographer and documentary filmmaker, was killed in the Kyiv region

On April 1, police found Maks Levin, documentary filmmaker, dead in Huta Mezhyhirska.

Militarnyi reports about this with reference to lb.ua.

There has been no reach of the journalist since March 13th. It is known that Maksym was last accompanied in Huta Mezhyhirska by Oleksiy Chernyshov, a military serviceman and former photographer. He was documenting the consequences of russian aggression in the village. The men left the car and headed towards the village of Moshchun. They could not have been reached since then.

The last post on Maks Levin’s Facebook page also dates back to March 13:

“The front line in the North of Kyiv now runs along the line of defense of Kyiv during the Second World War. Where the Ukrainian army now stands are the bunkers of the Soviet army dating back to the defense of Kyiv in 1941. On the other side of the Irpin river stationed the troops of Nazi Germany. Now it is the russian army,” he wrote.

He published a photo of the Ukrainian military near a destroyed World War II bunker near the village of Demydiv.

It was later reported that intense fighting broke out in the area where Maks Levin was going to work.

The whereabouts and fate of Oleksiy Chernyshov are not yet determined.

Maks Levin had been working with LB.ua for over 10 years. He was also filming and photographing for Reuters, BBC, TRT World, Associated Press, and Hromadske.

His pictures were published by Wall Street Journal, TIME, Breaking news Poland, EU AGENDA, World news, The Moscow Time, Korrespondent.net, ELLE, TV-24, Radio Bulgaria, Ukraine Crisis Media center, Vatican news, Radio Svoboda (RFE/RL).

Maks Levin co-authored the AFTERILOVAISK project, a documentary media project designed to capture the events of August 2014. It contains a unique author’s chronicle of events of that time.

Maks Levin was 40 years old. He left behind four underaged children, a wife, and elderly parents.