Maks Levin, a Ukrainian photographer and documentary filmmaker, was found dead outside Kyiv on Saturday after going missing more than two weeks ago, presidential adviser Andriy Yermak said.

“On March 13, he went missing in the combat zone in the Kyiv region. On April 1, his corpse was discovered in the town of Guta Mezhygirska “He stated this on Telegram.

According to early results from the prosecutor’s office, the journalist was murdered by “two bullets” from the Russian military, according to the Institute of Mass Information, a non-governmental organisation.

Levin, a 40-year-old father of four, has previously worked with Ukrainian and foreign media.

During combat in eastern Ukraine in 2014 between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels, he managed to escape encirclement in a town where hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers were slain.