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The car blast that killed journalist Pavel Sheremet in Kyiv on July 20 morning was caused by an improvised caseless explosive device equivalent to 400 to 600 grams of TNT, Zoryan Shkiryak, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, said on Facebook on July 20.

“Preliminarily. An improvised caseless explosive device was set off, possibly a remote-controlled or delayed-action device. Preliminarily, equivalent to 400 to 600 grams of TNT. Pavel Sheremet’s killers acted skillfully,” Shkiryak said.