Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expressed “shock” at the murder of Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader gunned down on a sidewalk near the Kremlin overnight, whom he called a “bridge” between their countries.
Artillery fell silent for the second time this week as government forces and pro-Russian separatists said they were pulling back weapons from the conflict area in line with a Feb. 12 cease-fire. Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of Russian support for the Ukrainian conflict, had received death threats and was working on a report about Putin and Russia’s involvement, according to Ilya Yashin, an opposition leader.
