A well-known photojournalist has vanished from the frontline of the war in Ukraine.
Maksym "Max" Levin's was last heard from on March 13 when he told a friend he entering a warzone in the capital's Vyshhorod district.
Max's friend Markiyan Lyseiko told local media his pal had been carrying a camera through a war-torn village in the hours before his disappearance.
On the day he vanished, Max had travelled by car to a village close to Moshchun - which has been the site of intense clashes where Russian troops pummelled residential buildings to the ground with heavy artillery fire.
He then travelled by foot to get within the battle zone, just north of besieged Kyiv.
His final message was received on March 13 at 11.23am - and he has not been in contact with anyone since, according to Markiyan.
Local media has suggested that Max may have either been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner by enemy soldiers.
Levin, who is in his early 40s, has worked as a photojournalist and documentary photographer for both Ukrainian and international news outlets, including the BBC, Reuters, and AP.
His photos have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and TIME magazine among others.
Many of his projects were focused on the crisis in Donbass but he switched to covering the war in Ukraine after Vladimir Putin ordered troops to invade in late February.
He has also worked on video and photo packages for human rights organisations like the World Health Organisation and the United Nations.
In the past he said one of his dreams was to take a "photo that will stop the war".
Yesterday, horrifying scenes were shared from the besieged capital showing the moment Russian bombs destroyed a Kyiv shopping mall - killing at least eight civilians.
Firefighters worked through the night to rescue Ukrainians trapped underneath the rubble of the complex.
Retroville shopping mall, in the capital's Podilskyi district, was hit at just before 10.48pm last night.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office said at least eight people had been killed in the strike, the Kyiv Independent reports.
The bodies of six people have been laid in front of the destroyed building, according to news agency AFP.
The explosion was caught on camera with CCTV footage showing a huge fireball rising from the mall.
Glass and other debris can be seen raining down from the sky in the clip, while another video shows a pile of rubble covered in flames.
