Investigation sees Russian trace in Sheremet murder – Interior ministry

12:17, 20.07.2017 1 min read

The investigation, based on a series of factors, considers that the Russian trace in the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet and a number of Ukrainian high-ranking officers as the most probable, director of the Liaison Department of the Ministry of Ukraine's Interior Ministry Artem Shevchenko has said.

"After the murder of Pavel Sheremet, three murders of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) and the Defense Ministry were similarly carried out: Colonel Kharaberiush in Mariupol in March, Colonel Shapoval in Kyiv on June 27 and Colonel Vvozny in Kostiantynivka. A similar method of these crimes and a number of other factors show that it is probably the Russian trace, and it is directly involved in the murder of journalist, Russian citizen Pavel Sheremet," he told journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.

At the same time, Shevchenko said, there are no procedural suspects in the case of Sheremet's murder for today.