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| Pro-Russian journalist Oles Buzyna gunned down in Ukraine |
| 2015-04-17 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna "Today at 13:20 local time (10:20 UTC/GMT), two unidentifiable men in masks shot journalist Oles Buzyna," Ukraine's Interior Ministry said in an online statement. Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, published on Facebook that Buzyna was killed on Thursday afternoon by shots from a passing car. He also underlined that Buzyna was a key witness in a criminal case related to a pro-Russian rally in Kyiv organized to counter the massive pro-Western protests on Maidan square. The protests eventually led former President Viktor Yanukovych to flee the country in 2014. "It seems the shooting of witnesses of the Anti-Maidan affair continues," Herashchenko said in his Facebook post. But, but, but, I thought... |
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