A second person suspected of involvement in the murder of lawyer Yuriy Hrabovsky, who represented Russian intelligence officer Alexander Alexandrov, was detained in Odesa region on Thursday morning and subsequently showed the site where Hrabovsky was killed and buried, Ukrainian Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios has said.

"Yesterday morning, as a result of the scrupulous and intense work done by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU)...together with investigators of the Military Prosecutor's Office and the Odesa branch of the SBU, another person was detained, in addition to the one arrested more than a week ago, one of the men involved in the disappearance of lawyer Hrabovsky," Matios said at a press briefing on Friday.

The second suspect was detained in Odesa region and told investigators about the site where Hrabovsky was buried, as well as the circumstances of the lawyer's murder, he said.

Those suspected of involvement in the lawyer's murder are citizens of Ukraine, and a fake special services officer ID has been confiscated from one of them, he said.

"After the site where Hrabovsky was buried in an abandoned collective farm garden, 27 kilometers from the town of Zhashkiv [Cherkasy region], was shown, we immediately found the slain man's body as soon as we began digging at the site pointed to by the criminal at 4:00 a.m.," Matios said.

An examination of the scene of the incident continues, and investigative measures involving forensic experts and other specialists are being taken, he added.