Director and journalist Leonid Kanfer dies

This was reported by his wife Svitlana Kanfer on Facebook.

"He fought until the end, because he promised me to live until my birthday, only three days were left. I held his hand until the last moment, at home, as he wanted. He held on to me so much that he flew to heaven only when I let him go because I saw how hard it was for him,"  Svitlana Kanfer wrote.

Leonid Kanfer was born in Minsk. He worked on TV channels in Belarus, Russia, Israel, Germany and Ukraine. He is the winner of the Tefi awards and the New York International Documentary Film Festival. He was a teacher, the author of a course on special reporting and documentaries.

Leonid Kanfer is the director of the "My War: Two Lives of Vasyl Slipak" film dedicated the Ukrainian opera singer Vasyl Slipak, who lived in Paris, but went to fight against Russia and died in Donbas.

Kanfer worked for the Espreso TV channel, where he hosted the  Reporter's Club, Kanfer's List programs and also created documentaries.

Leonid Kanfer has been fighting cancer since 2018.