KIEV: An unidentified assailant shot dead a pro-Russian journalist in Ukraine Thursday leading Kiev to brand the latest murders of pro-Moscow figures an enemy “provocation”.
Reporter Oles Buzyna, 45, a supporter of Ukraine’s ousted Kremlin-backed president Viktor Yanukovych, was gunned down in central Kiev just hours after the slaying of former ruling party lawmaker Oleg Kalashnikov in the city.
Ukraine’s government said the killings of its opponents was aimed at disrupting its efforts to stabilise the country as it battles pro-Russian separatists in the east in a conflict that has killed more than 6,000 people.
An AFP photographer saw Buzyna’s bloody body …read more
Source: theSun
