Investigators are currently testing four possible motives behind the murder of prominent journalist Pavel Sheremet in Kyiv, however they do not give preference to any one of them, chief of criminal investigation department of the National Police of Ukraine Dmytro Holovin has said.

"We are working on four lines if inquiry: personal relations of the deceased; his professional journalistic activity; destabilization of the situation in the city of Kyiv and in the whole country due to the death of a prominent journalist; the fourth, respectively, is that they might have missed the target, because the car was also used by his partner [Ukraiynska Pravda chief] Olena Prytula," he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.

Holovin stressed that the investigators are probing all four motives and do not give any preference to any one of them.