FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian photographer Maksim Levin carries a cat near the line of separation from Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk region, Ukraine January 25, 2022. REUTERS/Stanislav Kozliuk
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.
FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian photographer Maksim Levin holds a cat near the line of separation from Russian-backed separatists in Luhansk region, Ukraine January 6, 2022. REUTERS/Stanislav Kozliuk
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.
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."
FILE PHOTO: Anti-government protesters lead away a riot policeman in Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine February 20, 2014. Ukrainian protesters hurling petrol bombs and paving stones drove riot police from the central square in Kyiv on Thursday despite a "truce" which embattled Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich said he had agreed with opposition leaders. REUTERS/Maks Levin/
"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."
(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper; Editing by Frances Kerry)
FILE PHOTO: Pro-Russian demonstrators take part in a rally in Yevpatoria, Crimea March 5, 2014. Russia rebuffed Western demands to withdraw forces in Ukraine's Crimea region to their bases on Wednesday amid a day of high-stakes diplomacy in Paris aimed at easing tensions over Ukraine and averting the risk of war. REUTERS/Maks Levin/FILE PHOTO: A car burns during clashes between anti-government protesters and Interior Ministry members in Kyiv, Ukraine February 18, 2014. Ukrainian riot police advanced on the heart of 12-week-old protests against President Viktor Yanukovich on Tuesday and security forces set a deadline to end disturbances after at least five protesters were reported killed in a day of clashes. REUTERS/Maks Levin/FILE PHOTO: Anti-government protesters throw wood into a fire at a barricade during clashes with Interior Ministry members and riot police in central Kyiv, Ukraine February 19, 2014. Twenty-five people have been killed in fighting between anti-government protesters and police in the capital Kyiv, the Ukrainian Health Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. REUTERS/Maks Levin/FILE PHOTO: Activists of Ukrainian opposition parties clash with riot police as they attempt to get into the mayoral office during a rally against the Kyiv mayoral election, which was earlier postponed until 2015, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 2, 2013. Ukrainian police used tear gas in the centre of the capital Kyiv on Wednesday to prevent incursion into the building of the city council of thousands of protesters who believe the current council meeting is illegitimate. REUTERS/Maks Levin/FILE PHOTO: Riot police officers and a woman take cover behind shields during clashes between anti-government protesters with police in Kyiv, Ukraine February 18, 2014. Ukrainian riot police advanced on the heart of 12-week-old protests against President Viktor Yanukovich on Tuesday and security forces set a deadline to end disturbances after at least five protesters were reported killed in a day of clashes. REUTERS/Maks Levin/FILE PHOTO: Riot police officers take cover behind shields during clashes with pro-European protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 22, 2014. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has agreed to meet the three main opposition leaders on Wednesday for talks on a crisis that has led to violent clashes between protesters and police, said one of the leaders, Arseny Yatsenyuk. REUTERS/Maks Levin/FILE PHOTO: A Ukrainian serviceman is seen at his position during fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian town of Ilovaisk, Ukraine, August 26, 2014. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday that the only effective instrument for ending bloodshed in eastern Ukraine was effective border controls with Russia, and halting arms supplies to the rebels and releasing prisoners of war. REUTERS/Maks Levin/
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