The businessman Eduard Akselrod, who has been killed in Kharkiv, was involved in plotting a murder of former State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov in Kyiv, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said.

"Akselrod is the connection of Tyurin and Vasylenko in the organization of Voronenkov's murder. The PGO investigation correctly identified [Russian criminal boss] Tyurin as the mastermind," Lutsenko commented on the message of MP Ihor Mosiychuk about the identity of the killed on his Facebook page on Sunday evening.

As reported, Eduard Akselrod was shot in his car in the center of Kharkiv overnight into Sunday.