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Andriy Fedur, a lawyer for the suspects in the killing of journalist Oles Buzyna, said he is convinced that the crime was perpetrated by the special services.

“It is the job of the prosecutors, the police and other law enforcement agencies to determine the reason and the goal of that, why it was done and who organized that provocation. I believe the killing of Oles Buzyna was perpetrated by the special services. I am deeply convinced about that now,” Fedur told a press conference in the Interfax-Ukraine press center in Kyiv on July 30.

The lawyer said he is convinced that his clients, Andriy Medvedko and Denys Polischuk, did not commit the killing, saying they are being framed.

Responding to a question as to what country’s special services could have done that, the lawyer said: “By what I see, how this situation occurred, I am confident that it is the doing of the special services. Obviously, Ukrainian. It’s a different question who they are working for, who their curator is, who planned it and for what purpose because I am deeply convinced that the Buzyna killing is a dirty provocation. And I am saying it’s our special services, they were definitely involved in it.”

Fedur emphasized that the investigators are not saying anything about the motives that Medvedko and Polischuk could have had to kill Buzyna. “Their paths had never crossed in life, they did not have any dealings with each other, no conflicts. A premeditated murder cannot be without a motive. There is not a single word about that in the procedural documents,” he said.

A different lawyer, Serhiy Voichenko, said the defense lawyers have an irrefutable confirmation of Medvedko’s and Polischuk’s alibis. “I personally visited the anti-terrorist operation zone and we determined the people who can confirm that. We have their written testimonies. We have irrefutable evidence that Medvedko and Polischuk were not in Kyiv on April 16, 2015.”

Buzyna was shot and killed in the yard of an apartment block where he lived in Kyiv on April 16. Andriy Medvedko and Denys Polischuk, who are accused of murdering Buzyna, were detained on June 18.