he dumplings were like that, he would stick cheese cakes, i didn’t get them like that in the 99th year, it was his 18-year-old elementary school, they finished, and he was still studying at the institute, and he was delayed for one day, two games. what happened? i went to work, i’m talking. kievskoy vedomosti went there, went, tried lux ​​and got to work there. well, i offered to work there. if you want to try to be a photographer, he immediately agreed, and he agreed, and they became interested. he graduated with honors from the institute. работал всё только что with photographs, everything was

now and exhibitions and at exhibitions he always has it from the first time go to an exhibition of works he is always in hot spots he everything he looked at how many medals all hot spots everything it was time for the war, the first child was born , how he was, how he waited, it's scary. and maksim is for children, and the weather also organizes trips to the horizontal bar, carousels

, swings, everything was like that, the playground, the equipment, i remember when there was some promotion on maidan independence was on maternity leave on maternity leave and he came to events with a child in a helmet. here is a child and he has a camera and he walks there filming something, everyone is running and he is so neat, but he was still in the profession me and max well, we saw each other probably at some events, but we got to know each other , we met in the ilovaisk car. we, uh, with money, quietly

arrived in ilovaisk when we were at the depot on the first day. then the military from the peacekeeper battalion of the peacekeeper took us into the school and said that the only chance for civilians to get out of the environment is from the school there there will be some fast corridors, when we moved from the ilovaisk railway depot to the school, max was there and markiyan lysenko was there. and actually we started with them then, well, we got to know each other and began to hear them talking closely, it was august 25, 8 years ago, we met in the school corridor, hugged warmly, and one of the in his first sentences, he says, guys, you need to eat , that war is war, but let's go, i'll feed you there.

max had a very, uh, such a strong sense of justice , it applied to everything. people and saw such details and features in people that can be seen only if you look closely, if you appreciate people, that is, treat them carefully. i think that this is part of his talent as a photojournalist, as a videographer, this is exactly what he saw in people. they were not indifferent to him six o'clock in the morning there was a column, we stood somewhere practically at the end of this column , there after a while there, a few hours later, we were given the command to leave. that's when we left the village. we left in a clear field, when it started, we opened fire on the russian troops, and max was there too.

he was really driving the car when we were leaving, i believe that our salvation is his merit. that is, he is my guardian angel - he is the person who saved my life because there, well, this trip that lasted there for 30-40 minutes, i don't know but at this moment it seems like an eternity, but we already saw the ruptures of the mines near the road. the road was shot at. it was clear that here and then max very quickly overtook the truck with the military and we just at high speed passed the column on the left side and broke forward. tanks and equipment have already been knocked out and on the way, several bullets hit our car.

one bullet flew everywhere, flew into the windshield and completely knocked out the back. i was sitting right behind him and he was dodging these shots. we were hiding somewhere under armored vehicles, somewhere under trucks , max's skill as a result saved our lives or and this is the infinity in which we were driving, it was the only car that left with love that day, this photo was taken in the city of dokuchayevsk, which immediately after leaving we stopped, got out of the car, looked around for

the first time, and generally began to realize that we just wanted to live, because this realization came gradually. well, there is still blood on this man’s pants, er, he was injured by broken glass from the er window when, during the last ambush , they asked us to use some kind of machine gun fire or there are kalashnikovs, what kind of small arms, here they got out of the car, my heart is pounding, it was a strange thing, well, an iconic photo, send it here, a landmark here, maximus saved saved, he was stubborn, then he messed with someone, they helped him a lot. he does something he does it until he doesn't do it, he was reliable, there was a lot of talk about the fact that if someone was early

or we would leave each other somewhere on the battlefield or not on the battlefield and i don't know in the forest or somewhere else i discovered this incredible man he was totally dedicated to his profession and his country which is very difficult to combine it is of course to be impartial if you are a reporter but this is your country your war your friends it is difficult but he was dedicated to telling stories a trader he was very clear on security issues he was strong professional, but not crazy. he is always silent , and when something started to escalate , there were 2 billion of them before those escalated from, from, well, during the small war, every time max tried to be somewhere closer to the front line, he was partly negligent, neglecting his safety he

tried to show what was really happening before the start of the large-scale invasion, few photographers filmed the battles and max was one of those who filmed the battles. many people did not understand what war was, and so max showed what war was. and here he is went just before the 24th and he met the war on the front line we spent a few days working together and suddenly the attack on kiev we talked and he told me the russians will never conquer this country i said they just attacked kiev and he replied they never they will take this country, they will need a million people, but they will still never conquer this country. these were one of

his last words. he was returning and he drove into kharkiv. he could not let them pass because he was in a car and this is probably one of the first photos directly from the destroyed equipment and the destroyed russians who then did not hold the fight, they retreated from the bypass max was just filming as if on the hot tracks , immediately after the battle, the equipment of the invaders was destroyed. to the unit, the commander of that unit was. he was filming them fighting. i didn't follow him, well, that is, until he was. we realized that he was mark few. some weeks before we started investigating patrick show, the french war correspondent was with

max levin in donbas, they worked together and we decided together that i, as the head of the reporter investigation department, would work for free . we will work together on the investigation . the purpose of this investigation was to find out what max was doing in the last days before his disappearance, so we interviewed family friends to find out more about what he was doing as he covered the war then in the second stage we tried to get materials about the crimes so we decided to go despite some difficulties to the crime scene we met with several people in muschini, it was important for us to gather information about which russian soldiers were in this village

. what were they doing when they came? when we arrived, we tried to establish a connection with a crime that was committed in the forest a few kilometers from the village. look at this photo taken in the forest when we for the first time, we tried to find max's car and the scene of the crime. we moved very carefully because we did not know whether we would come across a minus or other explosive devices, you had to go very carefully, the first attempt was not successful, we spent about four it didn't take five hours and they decided to go back. score in the forest and this is max's car in the forest . as you can see, it is parked a little on the side of the road. it was burned somewhere ahead. it was found behind 70 m from

the car. there were 14 bullets in the car . in the car, we found two types of bullets from a kalashnikov assault rifle. and the nine-millimeter ones are of a much larger caliber, they could have been fired from a pistol or a weapon belonging to special forces or a higher-ranking officer. you know, this is one of the holes in the car. which we discovered there is a function er and at this stage we can say that he was shot three identical times in the chest and twice in the head er and the bullet we found came through the chest or through the head but it was found in the same place where he was lying the body, we miss that if this bullet was in the ground, then the

russians shot max when he was already lying on the ground, that is why we are talking about the fact that it was an execution, this is substantial evidence, it did not happen due to random shooting, it was not an accident. this is the loss, well, this is max a fairy tale is nuts among other things russian didn't finish everything that he took from maksym. max always liked to take with him, er, this piece of his car, he took it. i don't know. some acquaintance of max's mother said that she wants to do a museum. i think i'll give it there for a price. until we find the criminals, we won't finish until they will not stand up before the court it may take months it may take months but we will investigate this case he was an outstanding journalist whose work he did not do was very important for his people for his country and i

hope that one day we will bring this case to at the end of september 10, the day of zhytomyr ukraine unconquered until february 24 i worked as a designer from the first days of a full-scale war, i went through an accelerated course in weapons ownership and joined the ranks of the territorial defense, i was a reserve officer in 2014, i could not go to war because i had just given birth to a child , so i left 15% of the ukrainian army is now on the front - these are women, with their work, courage, honor and courage,

they have proven that they are no different from the other 85%. there is no weak gender in ukraine, fear is natural, you don't choose to feel it or not, but it is only your choice what to do with him, whether he will win or you will turn him into a righteous anger anger that will ignite the heart and give strength to move forward this fear we have something to lose and therefore to defend at such an incredible cost but great freedom cannot be gained at a small cost each of us a step today is a step to a happy future. each of us is here because we tamed the city, learned to manage it, made it our ally, no matter how difficult it may be for us, but it will definitely not be a shame. this is a sports hall in which

ukrainian athletes could train, but since russia started a full-scale war in ukraine there is silence here russian and belarusian athletes are silent they pretend as if nothing happened and with their silence they support the killing of destruction and this cruel war ukrainian order halls however, we athletes of the world should not be silent join the fight share your videos and publications with a call for a boycott of russian and belarusian athletes, post them on social networks with company hashtags, support ukraine on the sports front, silence kills for with the support of the ministry of youth and sports of ukraine , we will overcome, we will overcome, we will win and shield news

together we are strong now 70 of our residents of the city of melitopol are in captivity today the occupiers hold melitopol only physically but definitely do not hold its spiritual morale ivan let us remember with you the days that preceded this full-scale russian invasion of melitopol what did you talk about with your deputies and the heads of various law enforcement agencies the day before and did you really expect that the invasion would happen by 80% - it was ordinary life in the city melitopol can even by 90%. ah, for the most part , two things were done that were so non-standard, first of all, we ah, every week of course and before february 24, the power structures more often held a meeting with the military based in

the territory of the city of melitopol, this is our transport aviation brigade, so we communicated with them more often and exchanged information more often is there any danger or not, are there any additional water ones or not, this is the first and second, of course, since for several months there was such an active preparation for the formation of the territorial defense, in which hunting was also formed, we provided premises to the territorial defense, together with them we made repairs in this premises and also prepared for the formation of our territorial defense in everything else, it was ordinary life, we dreamed of new transformations in our city, in our region, we they made plans and of course thought about what next project they would implement and surprise our residents with something to make her life even more comfortable, and this is how february 24th passed for you, how did you meet on the fourth of the 30th or the

fourth of the 45th in the morning? aviation e-e literally in 20 minutes we convened a meeting at the base of the kyiv police station where we exchanged information about what was happening and also found out how many specifically accurate shots were fired at our transport aircraft and at this in this minute the war began in our city of course e-e i did not i can say that there was no panic, but definitely no one ran anywhere, definitely no one was waiting for them, and the whole team gathered on the territory of the city council and began to think about what to do, how to react , of course, the more difficult thing began at three o'clock on february 24, when on the border the city of melitopol with

enemy equipment appeared and at this time we clearly understood that we were already the leadership of the city ourselves because at that moment the decision was made by the leadership of the security forces, as the forces were naturally disproportionate, the enemy and ours and the police were stronger to take the security forces out of the territory of the city of melitopol to the city of zaporizhzhia, that's why we were mostly left alone, some employees were left who , uh, provided information to the security forces who provided assistance to me personally, and for the most part, we were left alone and we didn't know what would happen in the morning of february 25, and that's probably was the most difficult day, because at about four o'clock on the 24th, we left the city executive committee. when we never came back for our work, we went there several times

but they did not return to work, the war came to our city, and what happened to the old defense, which was also created, the terror defense, the first structure that took the fight in the city of melitopol, and at the checkpoint, which is from the southeast, at the police station, which is from the southeast, and then it was damaged. apcs , if the truth is correct, armored the enemy’s car, it was the fighters of our territorial defense, they were the first to accept, and then the battle in the city of melitopol, but already at six o’clock in the evening and the teroboron were also recalled from the city of melitopol because the forces were not shy, the enemy in one day, the enemy laughed, concentrated on the borders of the city of melitopol, 1,000 units of equipment, thousands, of course, we were not ready for this. let's talk about the circumstances of your capture . er, we know that you

were transferred to the occupied territory, but if possible, some details, at that time we made a decision from the whole team to stay in the city in melitopol and not leave the city, it was completely conscious decision and i never once regretted the fact that we made such decisions because these are our residents who, just like our relatives and friends , found themselves in an extremely difficult situation and we had no right to leave them, but we took a principled position that we the ukrainian government, we are the government elected by ukrainian citizens and we will clearly act within the framework of ukrainian legislation, the first time we saw the russian military when they came to communicate with us probably on the third or fourth day of the full occupation at that time they said that they will not touch us, you can work as you want, we also had the condition that we are ready to work as long as the ukrainian flag is on the central square of our city, this of course annoyed them, probably not so much

those who were directly in the city of melitopol a how many of those who gave orders to them from the kremlin. they did not understand how this place was captured and the ukrainian flag was flying, but this position was principled, and as for the capture, it is quite clear to me why it happened, it happened because two weeks later after the invasion of the territory of ukraine, they realized that their plans failed in three days in a week, they could not buy our entire state, and therefore the leadership began to change, new generals arrived, and the generals decided to make a show. what will happen to those who do not want to be created as an aggressor and therefore they decided to take me prisoner, they kept me in the territory of the city of melitopol in the police station in the pre-trial detention center information that you were taken to donetsk or even to luhansk when you were taken from our shevchenko cultural center, they told me that the decision was made by the prosecutor of the

dpr that i am accused of financing the right sector , that is why we do not immediately attack the donbass, but no, this is not true, we did not receive the whole time on the territory of the melitopol city police station at the base of the pre- trial detention center and spent and this is a difficult time, it is difficult for me as i now evaluate it for several reasons, first of all at 33 years old, life could have ended because now we clearly understand that for them human life is worth nothing because today, unfortunately, we state the fact that 380 of our children were killed by the enemy, and secondly, of course, i was without any means of communication and i did not understand where are my parents, where are my team, where are my relatives and close people, and it was not difficult, and the most important thing - i did not i understood when it will all end, no one can answer when will i leave or will i leave alive, and it was difficult. of course, there were many temporary interrogations. they were interested in everything. they were completely

unprepared . they asked these questions, but they did not get answers to all the questions, but it is more difficult now because 70 of our residents of the city of melitopol are currently in captivity. some of them have been held for the fourth month and are subjected to torture. the only time they realized that they won't be able to get the support of our residents, they clearly understood that because of fear and intimidation they want to get it today the occupiers hold melitopol only physically but they definitely don't hold it spiritually, morally, only physically, they also tried to force you to go to the

other side, so to speak, in captivity, how they argued, how they intimidated in captivity, they already tried to do this before the captivity, they did it several times, first gently, then harshly the main thing is that they wanted me to conditionally go to the central square of the city and say, dear citizens of melitopol, let's go to russia, but this is impossible because i don't want it, i don't support it, and the residents of the city of melitopol today, even today, don't support it. therefore it is impossible, and in captivity they did not do this because they clearly understood that i am not ready to work without the ukrainian flag, we will not often hold an example that every day of these two weeks of occupation i recorded videos against the background of the national flag and every morning they came they say to me ok videos let it be let's go without the flag but this is a principled position we don't have er we can't today our armed forces of ukraine take much more risks every day soldiers ago and we

have no right as politicians as local the leadership does not have the right to make concessions to the enemy even in such small matters, can we already tell how you managed to be released, because it looks like a real happy end now, yes, it really is today, we can say that it is a happy end, and when all this happened, no one i understood how it would end, but everyone was not aiming to release me. i am grateful for this to my friends and the largest political leadership of our country and foreign partners who also did everything possible and impossible and who is this what kind of foreign partners are these why do you mention exactly their role in your release? a large number of members of the european parliament a-a a separate resolution was adopted at the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe regarding my capture. therefore, these are our friends, these are my friends who called for my release as soon as possible.

because in the past 8 years of our presence in the leadership of the city of melitopol, constructive relations with many european institutions have been built into us, we have shown that the city of melitopol is really european about european the city, its residents want a european future, and we are nowhere wrong with our principle and have built such relations with all our partners , that is why, indeed, everyone did everything to make it happen freely, of course , our president volodymyr zelenskyi, who was personally involved in this process and thanks for these that today we can do this interview today it looks like a happy end but those six days were too long in my life in fact there are such theories and russians in various telegram channels they are spreading that you seem to have been exchanged for the son of a criminal authority from crimea who ended up in the territory of ukraine, do you know anything about this , then this son looks pretty bad because i

saw all those uh people for whom i was exchanged, they are young russian soldiers, young men 18-19 years old who were dressed not at all like the son of someone criminally responsible. this is definitely not necessarily the origin. with we talked to you during the live broadcasts of the national marathon, the only news is that you are working remotely, you are continuing to perform the duties of the mayor, you are in the city of zaporizhzhia, how is your work organized now, this is a non-standard job, it is not at all the job that we were chosen for one and a half years ago, it is with our team, but this is the work that we have to do today because, in fact, the city is not just the territory of the building