Russian journalist critical of Kremlin shot dead in Ukraine
May 30, 2018  14:22
A dissident Russian journalist has been shot at his apartment in Kiev in a high-profile murder that police said may have been tied to his reporting, reports Andrew Roth in The Guardian

'Arkady Babchenko, a veteran Russian war correspondent, was shot three times in the back as he left his apartment to buy bread... The killing appeared to be targeted. The gunman had apparently lain in wait for him outside his apartment, reports Roth.   

'Babchenko had grown highly critical of the Russian government in recent years. He criticised Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea and his support for the separatists of south-east Ukraine. He left Russia in February 2017, writing that it was "a country I no longer feel safe in',' Roth writes, here.
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