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Arkady Babchenko
- A prominent Russian journalist who was openly critical of Russia was shot dead in Ukraine on Monday, Ukrainian police said.
- Arkady Babchenko, 41, was shot in the back in his apartment in Kyiv and died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
- He was extremely critical of Russia's annexation, and was forced to flee the country in February 2017 because of threats to him and his family.
A prominent Russian journalist who was openly critical of Russia was shot dead in Ukraine on Monday, Ukrainian police said.
Arkady Babchenko, 41, was shot in the back in his apartment in Kyiv and died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, according to the Kyiv Post. His wife found him and had called the ambulance.
Babchenko was one of Russia's best-known war correspondents, and had reported multiple times from the war-torn Donbas region in Ukraine, Kyiv Post reported.
He was extremely critical of Russia's annexation, and was forced to flee the country in February 2017 because of threats to him and his family, the Kyiv Post reported.
He wrote about the threats he received in a Guardian piece in February 2017, describing how a Facebook post he wrote sparked much of it.
In Ukraine, Babchenko hosted a political talk show called "Prime: Babchenko," Kyiv Post reported.
The incident follows the mysterious death of Maxim Borodin, a Russian journalist who reported on Wagner Group mercenary deaths in Syria, but died after falling from his balcony in Russia in April.
There have been at least 14 other assassinations- and many more attempts - in Ukraine as well since 2014.