2016 Murder of Pavel Sheremet
Two years ago, on July 20, 2016, Pavel Sheremet, a Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian TV presenter and journalist, was killed in Kyiv. His car was remotely blown up at the corner of Bohdan Khmelnitsky and Ivan Franko streets. According to investigators, the cause of the murder was Sheremet's "professional activities both on the territory of Ukraine and abroad." Russian special services were suspected of involvement in the assassination attempt.