This Article is From May 05, 2022

Ukrainian Journalist-Turned Soldier Killed In Fighting: President Zelensky

Russia-Ukraine war: Oleksandr Makhov, known for graphic accounts from conflict zones, also fought in a 2014 conflict after Russian-speakers staged separatist insurrections in two eastern regions of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Journalist-Turned Soldier Killed In Fighting: President Zelensky

Oleksandr Makhov, 36, is at least the 8th journalist to have died in more than 2 months of conflict.

Kyiv:

 A Ukrainian television reporter who enlisted after the Russian invasion has been killed in fighting outside the northeastern city of Izyum, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday.

Oleksandr Makhov, 36, is at least the eighth journalist to have died in more than two months of conflict.

Makhov, known for graphic accounts from conflict zones, had also reported from Antarctica. He fought in a 2014 conflict after Russian-speakers staged separatist insurrections in two eastern regions of Ukraine.

"Patriotic and sincere, and always without vanity. And he was always among the bravest, among those first in line," Zelenskiy said in an early morning video address.

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