Maks Levin, a Ukrainian photojournalist and documentary photographer, has been found dead near a village called Huta Mezhyhirska in the Kyiv region of Ukraine.
According to LB.ua, the organisation Maks worked with for over 10 years, he went to Huta Mezhyhirska on March 13, alongside Oleksiy Chernyshov, a serviceman and former photographer, on a trip to document the consequences of the ongoing Russian aggression. They left the car, headed towards the village of Moshchun, and then they went missing.
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For weeks, there was fear that they might have been abducted. However, it was later established that an intense fight broke out where Maks was going to work.
While Maks’ body has been found, the whereabouts and fate of Oleksiy Chernyshov have not been established yet.
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Max Levin was born on July 7, 1981, in the Kyiv region. From the age of 15, he dreamed of becoming a photographer. He graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute with a degree in computer systems engineering. He has worked as a photojournalist, documentary photographer, and cameraman for many Ukrainian and international publications.
He has written for Reuters, BBC, TRT World, Associated Press, and Hromadske. His photos were published by the 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 and RFE/RL.
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“In 2014, together with his colleague Markiyan Liseyko, Levin founded the AFTER ILOVAISK afterilovaisk.com military project to preserve and rethink the significance of the events of August 2014 by the military, their families and citizens of Ukraine in general. Maxim was one of those who managed to get out of the Ilovaysk boiler alive,” LB.ua wrote.
Maks left behind four underage sons, a civilian woman and elderly parents.
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