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Ex-Duma deputy Ponomaryov says Voronenkov killed on his way to meeting with him

Published March 23, 2017 at 1:51 pm

A man sits near the covered body of Denis Voronenkov, an exiled Russian lawmaker, soon after Voronenkov was killed in a shootout on Pushkinska Street in central Kyiv, near the Premier Palace Hotel, on March 23.

MOSCOW – Former Russian State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomaryov says Denis Voronenkov, also a former Duma deputy, was on his way to a meeting with him while he was shot and killed in central Kyiv.

“Denis Voronenkov was killed near the Premier Palace Hotel at 11:25 a.m. He was on his way to a meeting with me. I am lost for words. The bodyguard managed to wound the attacker,” Ponomaryov said on Facebook on March 23.