A Russian journalist critical of President Vladimir Putin’s government was shot and killed in Ukraine’s capital of Kiev on Tuesday, according to authorities.
The Associated Press reported that Arkady Babchenko, 41, was found by his wife suffering from several gunshot wounds and died on the way to the hospital. Babchenko fled Russia in 2017 after stating that he was receiving death threats over his reporting.
He relocated to Kiev, where he began working for a Crimean television station and produced coverage critical of Russia’s military actions in the region. Police told The Moscow Times that Babchenko’s work was the likely motive for the killing.
The attack comes just months after another well-known critic of Putin’s government, Tatiana Felgengauer, was stabbed in the neck but survived after an intruder attacked her television station with a knife. Russian authorities brushed the attack off as a mental health issue. Another anchor at the same station left months earlier after being attacked multiple times.
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Anti-Putin journalist who fled Russia shot dead in his apartment https://t.co/6HzM5UQMad pic.twitter.com/BkGIEDaImJ
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