Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, a harsh critic of Putin’s regime, has been shot dead on Tuesday evening.
https://www.facebook.com/ayder.muzhdabaev/posts/1937107976323068
“Arkady Babchenko was shot in the back, at home. [He] was taken to hospital,” journalist Aider Muzhdabayev said on Facebook on Tuesday.
The journalist was murdered in or near his flat, press officer of the National Police Yaroslav Trakalo told Ukrainian Pravda:
“The accident occurred in Dniprovski district. His wife was in the bathroom. When she heard bangs, she went out and saw the bleeding husband”.
According to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, Babchenko died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
#ВАЖЛИВО: У Києві стріляли в чоловіка. Від отриманого поранення потерпілий помер у кареті «швидкої».Подія сталася на…
Opublikowany przez МВС України Wtorek, 29 maja 2018
“The police have received a call from doctors – a woman called them and said she had found her husband in the apartment, he was in blood. The victim died of a wound, it is reportedly a wound in the back,” Unian quotes the Interior Ministry.
Четыре года назад генерал Кульчицкий не взял меня на этот вертолет. Из-за перегруза. Не было места. Перегруженная…
Opublikowany przez Аркадий Бабченко Wtorek, 29 maja 2018
In his last post on Facebook Babchenko recalled that in 2014, four years ago, he had not been taken on board and a bit later the helicopter had been shot down by militants in Donbas.
“Fourteen people were killed. And I was lucky. This day turns out to be my second birthday,” he wrote today.
Arkady Babchenko was born in 1977. He participated in the first and second Chechen wars. In the early 2000s, he took up journalism, he contributed to the Novaya Gazeta. Being a war correspondent, he coveried the conflicts in South Ossetia (2008) and Donbas (2014).
Due to his anti-Putin stance and publications, he repeatedly received personal threats. In 2017, he left Russia for Kyiv, where he worked for TV station ATR.
This is the second high profile murder of a journalist in Ukraine since Pavel Sheremet was killed in an explosion in Kyiv in 2016. Anton Gerashchenko, an MP and former adviser to the Interior Minister, believes that the ‘actions of Russian secret services’ will be one of the versions of the tragedy.
Belsat.eu
