Journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed in Kiev - ForumDaily
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Journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed in Kiev

On July 20, at 7:45 am, journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed in the center of Kiev. An explosive device went off in the car he was driving.

ForumDaily tells what is known about the murder of a journalist.

How did this happen?

Leaving the house at 7:45 in the morning, Sheremet got behind the wheel and managed to drive off a little, after which an explosion occurred - at the intersection of Bohdan Khmelnitsky and Ivan Franko Streets.

At disposal “Browser” a video from CCTV cameras appeared, where the moment of explosion of a Subaru car, in which journalist Pavel Sheremet was driving, was recorded.

The recordings show how Sheremet's car drove up to the intersection, where it stopped to give way to other road users, but at that moment an explosion followed.

It should be noted that at the time of the explosion at the intersection, just near Sheremet, there was another car, the driver of which was not injured. Also, people walked along the side of the road, who also did not suffer from the shock wave, and after a few seconds rushed to the journalist's car, writes "Kyiv today."

When the ambulance took the journalist away, he was still alive. Sheremet died in an ambulance.

As Ukrayinska Pravda reports, the car belonged to the head of Ukrainska Pravda, Elena Prytula, but she was not in the car.

Improvised explosive device

Zoryan Shkiryak, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, said that the power of the detonated explosive device was from 400 to 600 grams in TNT equivalent.

“Preliminarily. A non-sheathed homemade explosive device went off, possibly remotely or with a delay... Pavel Sheremet’s killers worked professionally,” Shkiryak wrote on Facebook.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is considering three main versions of what happened

One of them is professional activity. The editor-in-chief of Ukrayinska Pravda, Sevgil Musaeva-Borovik, also spoke out in favor of it.

Close friends of the journalist told Novaya Gazeta that both Sheremet and Pritula had recently complained about being spied on.

Another version is the “Russian trace”.

The third version of the authorities is personal hostility, пишет Air Force

FBI and experts from EU countries will be involved in the investigation of Sheremet's murder

The President of Ukraine said that he had asked for help from international partners and discussed with the US Embassy in Ukraine the involvement of FBI experts in the investigation team, who possess unique methods of researching explosive technology. The head of state stressed that the investigation should be as transparent as possible. The President also instructed the Foreign Minister to contact EU partners in order to invite their experts to investigate the murder of a journalist. сообщается on the website of the President of Ukraine.

Sheremet's assassination caused a wide resonance in Russia and Ukraine

Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine, in Twitter:

“A terrible tragedy in Kyiv. Shock - there are no other words. I knew Pavel personally. My condolences to all the family and friends. I have instructed law enforcement agencies to immediately investigate this crime... the perpetrators must be punished.”

Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary of the Russian President:

“The murder of a Russian citizen and journalist in Ukraine is a cause for very serious concern in the Kremlin,” he said.

Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Facebook:

“[...] A professional who was not afraid to tell the authorities what he thought about them. Different authorities, at different times. And for this he was respected. Ukraine (not a country, but a system) is becoming a mass grave of journalists and journalism.”

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, leader of the Ukrainian rock band "Okean Elzy", in Twitter:

[...] Free spirits are killed, and most are driven into a stall of ignorance, poverty and fear ... you cannot let them achieve success ... each of us, each, by our actions or our inaction, affects the result. […] Who should we be? A society of free people, or a cage with slaves? It depends on us and only on us ... don't forget about it! For the memory of Pavel, for the memory of thousands of dead journalists and soldiers, students and volunteers, for those who were not afraid to go forward […].

Records in memory of the journalist were posted on social networks by many of his colleagues and friends.

Pavel Sheremet became famous in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus

Sheremet became famous in the 1990s as his own correspondent for the ORT TV channel (later the First Channel) in Belarus; at the end of the decade he hosted Vremya, the country's main news program. Since 2000, Sheremet has been shooting documentaries, and in 2008 he left Channel One due to censorship. In the past five years, the journalist lived and worked in Ukraine - in the newspaper "Ukrainian Truth", and also participated in the activities of his website "Belorussky Partizan", writes «Medusa».

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