The former deputy Denis Voronenkov was shot dead. What became known immediately after the murder

In the center of Kyiv, Killer shot the former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Denis Voronenkov, who left for Ukraine in 2016, testified in the case of Viktor Yanukovych and began to actively criticize the Russian authorities. The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine believes that Voronenkov could avenue the FSB; The Kremlin rejected the involvement of the Russian special services in the murder. "Medusa" tells everything that is known about the crime.

Denis Voronenkova, who went to meet with another former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, was killed in the afternoon of March 23 next to the entrance to the Premier-Palace hotel at the intersection of Pushkinskaya Street and Boulevard Taras Shevchenko. This is the place on the "Google maps":

Killer shot a TT pistol . He went to the former deputy, asked something and began to shoot: the killer hit Denis Voronenkov three times -in his stomach and neck. The former deputy died on the spot. Voronenkova guard, an employee of the Ukrainian special services wounded Killer; And he hit him. At the site of the murder, police officers found about 20 sleeves.

Both wounded lay on the ground when the police arrived. They were taken to hospitals. A few hours later, the killer, to whom the guard fell into the head from Stechkin , died on the operating table. The guard survived.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs established the identity of the killer Denis Voronenkov, but did not name his name. According to the Ukrainian publication, the Observer, he was born in 1988 and was wanted for fictitious entrepreneurship and legalization of income . He found documents indicating Ukrainian citizenship ( according to RBC-Ukraine, a certificate of a participant in the hostilities issued by the National Guard). Police also seized the murder from surveillance cameras .

The killer Denis Voronenkov had an accomplice or accomplice who brought him in a car; Nothing is known about them.

According to the prosecutor general of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko, the investigation considers two versions of the murder of Denis Voronenkov: revenge by the FSB officers involved in the “ three whales ”, and revenge for his testimony in the case of Viktor Yanukovych. On the day of the murder of Voronenkov, it was just to give new testimony. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko directly stated that Russia was involved in the murder - he recognized the "handwriting of the Russian special services." In the Kremlin, Russia's involvement was rejected. Former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev tends to the version of revenge on the part of General of the FSB Oleg Feoktistov : Preonenkov previously said that he allegedly had already arranged an attempt on him in 2007 .

After the murder of Voronenkov, his wife, Maria Maksakov, who moved to Kyiv with him (she was a deputy of the State Duma in the same convocation as Voronenkov himself, but from United Russia), will take under the intensified guard.

Vladimir Tsybulsky