A former State Duma deputy Voronenkov was killed in Kyiv

In the center of Kyiv, at the intersection of Pushkinskaya Street and Taras Shevchenko Boulevard near the Premier Palace Hotel hotel, on Thursday, March 23, a shootout occurred. As a result, the former State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Denis Voronenkov was killed. Last year, the ex-parliamentarian emigrated to Ukraine with his wife, received the citizenship of this country, testified in the case of the Stateizer against the Ukrainian ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, became a critic of the Russian authorities, was arrested in absentia on charges of fraud and put on an international wanted list.

The head of the Kiev police, Andrei Krishchenko, confirmed that Voronenkov was shot, reports 112 Ukraine . "There was a shootout about 40 minutes ago. A guard of the deceased wounded the attacker, and the striker still wounded the guard, in addition to killing one person. The identity of the deceased was established. This is a former deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation," Krishchenko said.

The attacker and Voronenkov’s guard are in the hospital under guard. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the data of the Russia 24 television channel, the wound of a person who shot at the ex-deputy is not life-threatening.

At the same time, according to UNN , the attacker was taken to the clinical city hospital N17 in Kiev unconscious and is in intensive care. Voronenkov’s guard was sent to a military hospital. According to sources of the publication, he is a citizen of Russia.

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko later said that Voronenkov’s killer was wounded in the chest and head. "A through wound to the head will not allow you to carry out investigative actions with it. Killer on the verge of death, the heart rhythm is artificially supported," he said.

At the same time, according to him, Voronenkov’s guard acted professionally. “Look at the result. One guard managed to inflict significant defeats to the killer. However, of course, the special service that guarded Voronenkov will conduct an investigation and establish whether this was enough,” Lutsenko emphasized ( 112 Ukraine quote).

“Now the investigator is interrogating the victim’s wife. After the press conference of Mr. Ponomarev, a decision has already been decided on the protection of both Ponomarev and Maria Maksakova by the SBU special forces. Of course, these forces will be increased in comparison with what was,” added Lutsenko.

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Later, Krishchenko spoke in more detail about the shootout. According to him, Voronenkov at about 11:28 local time (12:28 PM in Moscow) went to the Premier Palace hotel with his guard. “The killer opened fire on them, hit the victim, in the guard, and then, when he ran away, the guard also wounded the attacker with several shots,” said the head of the capital's head of the police (quote for Interfax ).

At the scene, the TT brand pistol was seized. Krishchenko said that Killer took seven to eight shots. According to a preliminary examination by the doctor of Voronenkov’s body, he has “three or four” gunshot wounds, in particular in the neck and in the stomach.

At the same time, the incident hit the hotel video surveillance chambers. These records have been seized, procedural actions are underway, Krishchenko noted. Also, records on video surveillance cameras are studied, which are installed on adjacent streets. In addition, there are witnesses who made entries on mobile phones, the investigation also works with them. However, the identity of the attacker has not yet been established.

The police are considering the version of the custom -made murder. “This is the first version that is now being considered, given the identity of the victim, his activity and the very way of committing a crime,” Krishchenko explained.

As reported on the website of the Department of Communication of the National Police of Ukraine, among the versions of the murder of Voronenkov, the possible actions of Russia are primarily considered. “At the moment, we understand, given the identity of the deceased, among the priority versions we consider precisely the actions of the Russian Federation aimed at destroying this person as such that gave important indications and played a key role in the processes that took place in Ukraine,” said the deputy head of the National Police Alexander Vakulenko.

Due to the murder in the center of Kyiv, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko urgently called the chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasily Gritsak. As UNIAN reports, the head of the SBU personally reported this and. O. Chairman of the Consultative Mission of the European Union Joel Vakhter before the start of a joint press-breaking of the SBU leadership and the EU Consultative Mission on the "Ways of European Special Services: the first report of the SBU for European practices."

Gritsak at a press conference at a request to comment on whether the shooting in the center of Kyiv was related to some special operation, replied: “I can only say that I have no data, that it was some kind of special operation. I have no preliminary data that I have, in extreme cases, I didn’t carry out the security service. In the area of“ Prime Minister Palace ”there really are, unfortunately, the wounded is working there now. Investigative and operational groups of the National Police and Security Service, ”said the head of the SBU.

Poroshenko called the murder of Voronenkov "an act of state terrorism from Russia"

The President of Ukraine held a meeting with employees of law enforcement agencies about the incident in the center of Kiev, the press secretary of the head of state Svyatoslav Tsegolko said on the Facebook page . The Ukrainian leader called the murder of Voronenkov "an act of state terrorism from Russia", which the ex-deputy "was forced to leave for political reasons." "The obvious handwriting of the Russian special services has previously been repeatedly manifested in different European capitals," Poroshenko said.

According to him, Voronenkov was "one of the main witnesses of Russian aggression against Ukraine and, in particular, the role of Yanukovych in the introduction of Russian troops into Ukraine." In addition, Poroshenko called the murder of the Russian ex-deputy and explosions in a warehouse of ammunition in the city of Balakliy Kharkov region that happened on one day. Kiev previously considered what was happening in the Kharkovshchina sabotage , which Russia could be involved.

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Before his death, Voronenkov was supposed to meet with Ponomarev

The ex-deputy of the State Duma, Ilya Ponomarev, who also testified in the case against former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, said that before the murder of Voronenkov, Voronenkov went to meet him. “Denis Voronenkov was killed at 11:25 by Premier Palace. He went to meet me. There are no words. The guard managed to injure the attacker. The version is obvious - I said that Voronenkov was not a crook, but an investigator who is deadly for the Russian security forces,” the former parliamentarian wrote on the Facebook page .

The ex-deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Voronenkov and Ponomarev both testified to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in the case of the Stateismman of Yanukovych.

In the fall of 2016, Voronenkov, together with his wife Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs, moved from Moscow to Kyiv. The former Russian parliamentarian received citizenship of Ukraine and testified to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office in the case of Gosizman Yanukovych.

At the end of January 2017, information about the emigration of two former deputies spread in the Russian media. In mid-February, Maksakov was expelled from United Russia, and in early March Voronenkov was expelled from the Communist Party due to the presence of foreign citizenship.

Moreover, on March 3, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested Voronenkov in absentia , and the investigation put him on the international wanted list. He is accused of a particularly large -scale fraud in an organized group and in organizing the falsification of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. According to the investigation, Voronenkov in 2011 made a raider seizure of a building in the center of Moscow worth $ 5 million. Then he helped to find the buyer on the illegally seized house of the entrepreneur Otari Kobahidze, for which he received more than $ 1 million.

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