The Ukrainian police initiated a criminal case on journalist Pavel Sheremet’s murder, announces the Ukrainian police website .
"The information collected on the murder has been registered in Shevchenkovoskoe department of Kiev’s National Police Department. According to the preliminary data , the investigators qualify the incident as an intentional homicide. There started a pre-trial investigation, " said the police.
Shemeret died in a car explosion. The car exploded in Kiev at the intersection of Ivan Franko and Bogdan Khmelnitsky.