Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has killed five journalists, wounded seven more, and one is missing.. During the war, Russia committed 148 crimes against the media, and 70 media outlets were suspended due to Russian military aggression, the Mass Media Institute reported..

It is noted that in Kyiv and the suburbs of the capital were killed in the performance of professional duties:.

Evgeny Sakun, operator of the LIVE TV channel (died on March 1 during a Russian rocket attack on a TV tower in Kyiv);

Brent Renault, former correspondent for The New York Times (shot by Russians on March 13 at a checkpoint in Irpin);

Pierre Zakrzewski, operator of the Fox News TV channel, citizen of Ireland (died on March 14 during artillery attacks by Russian troops in the village of Gorenka, Kiev region);

Alexandra Kuvshinova, Ukrainian fixer, journalist (died on March 14, together with Pierre Zakzhevsky, during an artillery shelling in the village of Gorenka, Kiev region);

Oksana Baulina, journalist for the Russian The Insider, the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation (died March 23 under Russian shelling in Kyiv).

Three more journalists reportedly died as combatants or as a result of Russian shelling outside of their journalistic duties..

Among them are Dilerbek Shakirov, a civilian journalist of the Vokrug You news weekly, who was shot dead on February 26 in the suburbs of Kherson, military journalist Viktor Dudar, who died on March 6 during the fighting near Nikolaev, and Sigma TV channel operator Viktor Didov, who died on March 11 in Mariupol as a result of shelling..

The fate of photojournalist Maxim Levin is still unknown.

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Journalist and photographer Maxim Levin disappeared near Kiev while working on documenting Russia's war against Ukraine. According to his friend and colleague, co-author of the joint documentary project Afterilovaisk Markiyan Liseyk, the last time he got in touch was on March 13 in the Vyshgorodsky district.