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ANKARA, Turkey — Local journalists and members of the press from across the world have flocked to Ukraine, risking their lives at every turn to report on the latest events on the ground in the war-torn country.

On March 26, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova announced that 12 journalists had died and ten more had been injured while covering Russia’s war, which began on February 24.

She remarked on Twitter, “Revealing the truth about Putin’s actions is becoming increasingly risky and dangerous.”

According to the Institute of Mass Information (IMI), an independent, non-governmental organization that supports the interests of Ukraine’s civil society, including responsible journalists, Russia perpetrated at least 148 crimes against journalists and media in the first month of the war.

According to IMI sources, Russian forces have killed at least six journalists while on assignment in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and its outskirts. At least seven journalists were also hurt, with one going missing, according to the report.

According to the IMI, at least six examples of journalists being kidnapped and mistreated by the Russian military have been reported.

According to the report, Russian forces attacked at least ten TV towers, causing complete or temporary disruption of TV and radio programming in eight regions of Ukraine.

In addition, the IMI said that 70 regional media outlets around the country were forced to close owing to war-related threats.

Russian forces attacked a team of Sky News reporters in their car last month. Several team members were hit by bullets, but thanks to their bulletproof jackets, they were able to live.

Maksim Levin is a Russian writer.

On April 2, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry stated on Twitter that photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Maksim Levin, who was capturing “Russian war atrocities” near Kyiv, had been found dead. According to authorities, unarmed Max was killed by Russian troops with “two bullets from guns.”

“His wife and four children survive him,” the ministry noted.

According to Ukraine’s presidential adviser Andriy Yermak, Levin, 40, who went missing on March 13 while working on the frontlines in the capital Kyiv, was found dead near the town of Huta-Mezhyhirska on April 1.

On Telegram, Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser and former deputy minister at the Interior Ministry, reported that the Ukrainian journalist went missing over two weeks ago while reporting in the Vishgorod district, which is now undergoing heavy warfare.

Levin traveled to Huta-Mezhyhirska on March 13 with Oleksiy Chernyshov, a serviceman and former photographer, “to capture the results of Russian assault,” according to Ukrainian media source LB.ua, with which Levin worked for over ten years.

“They got out of the automobile and headed for Moshchun village. Since then, neither man has been in contact with the other. Later, it was revealed that heavy fighting had broken out in the region where Maksim Levin was scheduled to work. Oleksiy Chernyshov’s whereabouts and fate are presently unknown “It was also added.

Levin also collaborated with international media on most of his documentaries about the Ukraine conflict.

Oksana Baulina is a Russian actress.

On March 23, while on assignment in Kyiv, Russian journalist Oksana Baulina of the investigative website The Insider was killed in a Russian bombardment.

Baulina was reporting from Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, according to the site, and she was killed when Russian troops shelled a residential neighborhood while the journalist was filming the wreckage in Kyiv’s Podil district.

It went on to say that she perished “during a bombardment while working on an editorial assignment.”

Another civilian was killed in the shelling, according to The Insider, whose editorial headquarters are in Latvia, while two more who were with Baulina were wounded and sent to the hospital.

Baulina previously worked for the Anti-Corruption Foundation of Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny.

She had fled Russia when the government listed Navalny’s foundation as an extremist organization last year.

Pierre Zakrzewski and Oleksandra Kuvshinova

Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshinova, a 24-year-old Ukrainian filmmaker and journalist, and Irish journalist Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, a cameraman for Fox News, were killed on March 14 after their car was hit by incoming Russian troops’ gunfire in Horenka, on the outskirts of Kyiv.

Benjamin Hall, a British correspondent, was injured in the incident.

Veteran cameraman Zakrzewski has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria for Fox News.

On the ground, Kuvshynova was working as a consultant for Fox News.

Renaud, Brent

Brent Renaud, an award-winning filmmaker, and journalist, was another foreign journalist slain while covering Russia’s war in Ukraine.

According to authorities, the 50-year-old American journalist was killed near a Russian checkpoint in the town of Irpin in the Kyiv region on March 13.

Renaud, a former New York Times contributor, was killed while reporting on the situation of refugees fleeing the region with a colleague.

Brent was in the area for a TIME Studios documentary about the world’s refugee problem.

The journalist was targeted by Russian soldiers, according to Kyiv police chief Andriy Nebytov, while his two companions were injured and evacuated to the hospital by Ukrainian rescuers.

Juan Arredondo, a Colombian-American journalist, was one of the injured journalists.

Dudar, Viktor

Viktor Dudar, a 44-year-old journalist from the Lviv region, was shot and killed on March 4 in Mykolaiv, Ukraine’s southern vital port city on the Black Sea.

Until he enlisted for the 2014-2015 battle in the eastern Donbas region, he worked as a crime correspondent for Express, Ukraine’s weekly newspaper.

The Ukrainian journalist took over as the paper’s defense reporter after becoming a reservist and returned from the conflict.

With the start of Moscow’s war, Dudar, who had previously worked as a journalist, rejoined the army to oppose the oncoming Russian soldiers.

Sakun, Yevhenii

On March 1, Ukrainian cameraman Yevhenii Sakun, 49, of the LIVE TV station, was murdered in a Russian rocket attack on the TV tower in Kyiv’s Babyn Yar neighborhood.

Sakun was working with his colleagues in the building when the missile impacted.

Only his press card was used to identify his body.

A strike on a television tower in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi area killed four additional persons and injured five more.

Shakiro Dilerbek

Shakirov Dilerbek Shukurovych, a journalist for the Navkolo Tebe (Around You) information monthly, was slain on February 26, just two days after the war began.

He was killed by an automatic weapon fired from a car in the town of Zelenivka, a suburb of Kherson’s southern metropolis.

On Twitter, the International Federation of Journalists condemned the assassination of a Ukrainian journalist.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, has sparked international indignation, with the EU, the United States, and the United Kingdom, among others, imposing harsh financial sanctions on Moscow.

According to UN estimates, at least 1,417 people have been killed and 2,038 have been injured in Ukraine, with the exact figure expected to be much higher.

According to the UN refugee agency, more than 4.17 million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries, with millions more internally displaced.

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