Dear Friends,

RSF has been pursuing its field investigation into the execution-style double murder of Ukrainian journalist Maks Levin and a friend one year ago in a forest near Kyiv with the aim of identifying those responsible and bringing them to justice.

The official investigation has made little progress in recent several months but RSF’s investigators have obtained a list of the numbers of mobile phones belonging to Russian soldiers that connected to the same antennae as Levin’s did on the day of his murder. They have also been able to compile a complete list of Russian military units that were near the place where Levin and his friend were executed.

With help from the Ukrainian authorities, both civilian and military, we will continue our investigation until those responsible for this double murder are identified. Your support is essential for us to be able to press on with this long-term project.

To learn more about the case, I invite you to view the RSF documentary entitled “Ukraine: the Maks Levin affair” that can be viewed on the website of the Franco-German TV channel Arte.