The Prosecutor General's Office has handed over the investigation into the murder of journalist Oles Buzyna to the Odesa regional prosecutor's office, the press service of the prosecutor's office of Odesa region told Interfax-Ukraine.

"The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has charged the Main Investigation Directorate of the Main Department of the National Police in Odesa region with conducting the pre-trial investigation in the criminal case under clause 12, part 2, Article 115 (murder) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine," the press service said.

They did not disclose any other details.

As reported, Buzyna was killed in the yard of an apartment block where he lived in Kyiv on April 16. Two suspects in his killing, Kyiv residents, Andriy Medvedko and Denys Polischuk, are currently under house arrest.