SBU has no proof Voronenkov killer was Russian FSB agent

11:32, 30.03.2017 1 min read

Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) is still checking whether Pavlo Parshov, the assassin of ex Russian lower parliament deputy Denis Voronenkov, was an agent of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).

"It has not been proven yet, but we are still working on answering the question about whether he was a FSB agent or not. We have no information about this so far. We are reading Facebook pages and other on-line sources of information," SBU chief of the Department of National Statehood Protection Viktor Kononenko said during a briefing on Wednesday.

SBU chief of staff Oleksandr Tkachuk said Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) was tasked with providing security of Voronenkov.

Earlier, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine deputy Anton Gerashchenko (People's Front Party faction), an advisor to Ukraine's Interior Minister, said Voronenkov was killed by an agent of Russia's secret services who was infiltrated into Ukraine.