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EXPLAINED: Ukrainian journalist coldly executed by russian forces report | Vintage Vibes

Ukrainian photographer and documentary maker Maks Levin was found dead near the capital, Kyiv, on April 1 [File: Genya Savilov/AFP]

A Ukrainian photojournalist and a soldier accompanying him who were killed in the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appear to have been “coldly executed” by Russian troops, Reporters Without Borders has concluded following an investigation into the killings.

The bodies of Maks Levin and serviceman Oleksiy Chernyshov were found on April 1 in a forest near Huta-Mezhyhirska, a village 30km (19 miles) north of the capital, Kyiv. The press freedom group speculated that Levin may have been searching Russian-occupied woodlands for his missing image-taking drone.

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