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Guardian: Russian journalist and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko shot dead in Kyiv

Published May 30, 2018 at 9:19 am

Police officers guard the entrance to the building, where Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko used to live. Babchenko was murdered in his apartment in Kyiv on May 29.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

A dissident Russian journalist has been shot at his apartment in Kyiv in a high-profile murder that police said may have been tied to his reporting.

Arkady Babchenko, a veteran Russian war correspondent, was shot three times in the back as he left his apartment to buy bread. He was found bleeding by his wife. Babchenko, 41, died in the ambulance to the hospital, a government official said.