RBC-Ukraine: a person accused of attempting to assassinate Putin was wounded in a shooting in Kyiv

The victim of the shooting at Podol in Kiev turned out to be Adam Osmayev, accused in Russia of an attempt on the life of President Vladimir Putin, RBC-Ukraine reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies.

According to the source, Osmayev and his wife Amina Okueva agreed on an interview with the allegedly French journalist Alex Werner from Le Monde in Kiev on Kirillovskaya Street. The source said that at the meeting, Werner took a Glock pistol out of the box and shot Osmayev in the chest. His wife then shot Werner four times with a Makarov award pistol. The wounded were taken to the 17th hospital.

As Interfax-Ukraine was told by the police, the shooting on Kirillovskaya occurred at 16:49. The department said two men received gunshot wounds.

Adam Osmayev was detained in February 2012. He was suspected of committing an explosion on January 4, 2012 on Tiraspolskaya Street in Odessa. During the explosion, 26-year-old Russian citizen Ruslan Madayev was killed and 28-year-old Kazakh citizen Ilya Pyanzin was seriously injured. Pyanzin was subsequently detained - he was accused of complicity in a crime; he began to cooperate with the investigation. Later, the SBU said that Ukrainian and Russian security forces thwarted terrorist plans to assassinate Vladimir Putin.

In the summer of 2012, Russia asked Ukraine to extradite Osmayev and Pyanzin, the latter was extradited. In Russia, Pyanzin retracted the confession he gave in Ukraine, but in September 2013 he was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security colony.

The Ukrainian court also decided to extradite Osmayev, but his lawyer managed to file a statement about the illegality of his extradition to the ECHR - and the extradition was suspended. Later, at the end of August 2014, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine completely canceled the extradition order.

Before this, in March 2014, Osmayev was released by the Primorsky Court of Odessa. The prosecutor's office dropped charges against him of an attempt on Putin's life and participation in a terrorist organization - so in the end Osmayev was found guilty under Article 263 (illegal handling of explosives), Article 196 (negligent destruction of citizens' property), as well as Part 1 of Article 32 and part 3 of Article 358 (crossing the state border of Ukraine using forged documents) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine as amended in 2011. He was released from serving his sentence because he had already spent almost three years in prison.

After the outbreak of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, Adam Osmayev joined the volunteer battalion named after Dzhokhar Dudayev, in which Chechens who emigrated from Russia fought against the militants of the self-proclaimed LPR and DPR. In February 2015, after the death of the previous head of the battalion, Isa Munayev, Osmayev headed this armed formation.

The head of Chechnya, Razman Kadyrov , claimed that Osmayev may be involved in the murder of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow. “There are many prerequisites that Adam Osmayev, who is now the commander of some Ukrainian “battalion named after Dzhokhar Dudayev,” is behind the murder,” Kadyrov said.