December 7, 2017
In Kiev (click here) on Wednesday, July 20, a famous journalist, a former Russian television employee Pavel Sheremet, died. According to the newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, in the center of the capital of Ukraine, the car in which the journalist was located exploded.
According to the press, Pavel Sheremet was in the car, which belongs to his common-law wife - co-founder, owner and head of the Ukrainian Pravda online publication Alena Pritule. At the time of the explosion, she was not in the car....
One of the witnesses to the explosion told Ekho Moskvy radio station that Pavel Sheremet was still alive when an ambulance arrived. According to preliminary data, the bomb was under the driver's seat. A funnel with a diameter of 50 cm formed at the site of the explosion.
The fire that broke out after the explosion was quickly put out by the units of the State Emergency Situations at 7:57, reports UNN .
At the scene, the leadership of the metropolitan police and investigative-operational groups of the Main and District Police Directorates work. The head of the National Police of Ukraine Khatia Dekanoidze arrived at the scene of the explosion almost immediately. She said that law enforcement officers will collect and study all the recordings of CCTV cameras that could capture the explosion. Police, meanwhile, unveiled photos of the blown up car....
This is a very clear indication from Ukraine that murder, even murder based on ideology (Russian style murder) will not be tolerated.
December 12, 2019
By Olga Rudenko
Police have arrested five suspects (click here) in the 2016 murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet, authorities announced at a briefing on Dec. 12.
The arrests come as a major breakthrough in an investigation that has languished for more than three years.
All of the arrested suspects are either veterans of Ukraine’s military resistance against Russian aggression or volunteers who have been helping the Ukrainian army.
They are: Vladyslav Hryshchenko, a war veteran; Inna Hryshchenko, his wife and a war veteran; Yulia Kuzmenko, a children’s surgeon who has been helping the army; Andriy Antonenko, a military officer and musician; and Yana Dugar, a servicewoman.
Both the motive of the murder and its organizers remain unknown.
I believe this is a very hopeful sign that a violent society in Ukraine is not the answer to democracy. The best news is that Ukraine will carry out the rule of law and provide a fair trial to prove guilt or innocence. The new Prosecutor General is making a difference.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Riaboshapka attend the meeting of the National Council for Anti-Corruption Policy on July 18, 2019, in Kyiv
Prosecutor General (click here) of Ukraine Ruslan Riaboshapka has predicted that it will take around two years for the key aspect of the prosecution reform – the recertification of prosecutors, and it will result in the reduction of the number of prosecutors.
“In general, the process will be very lengthy, since the country is still rather big and there are 11,000 prosecutors who are working today. After that there should be the recruiting of additional staff. We open up an opportunity for people who did not have the experience of being a prosecutor to work in prosecution bodies. I think this reform will last for no more than two years,” he told reporters in Kyiv on Tuesday.
According to the prosecutor general, the number of prosecutors will be reduced as part of the reform....
Chairman Nadler needs to call for a vote. The Republicans are being hideous and don't care about the health of committee members. It is time to end this charade by the Republicans and conduct an impeachment vote.
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