Sheremet Murder: Media Publishes Video of Alleged Planting of Bomb

News website Obozrevatel published a video of the alleged planting of the bomb which killed journalist Pavel Sheremet. The footage was assembled from security cameras near Sheremet’s house.

It shows two persons – a man and a woman. First, the man approached the car. Allegedly, he was preparing the place for planting a bomb. Then the woman came. The footage shows that she was doing something near the car. According to Obozrevatel, she was probably the one to plant a bomb.

The National Police promised to provide information on this matter.

Famous journalist Pavel Sheremet died in a car blast on Wednesday morning, July 20. The car belonged to the founding editor of Ukrayinska Pravda Olena Prytula, but she was not inside the car.

Pavel Sheremet was born and raised in Belarus. He worked in banking before becoming a journalist. He worked at Belarusian television, but because of a conflict with the Lukashenko regime, arrest, and a conditional sentence, Sheremet moved to Russia where he worked at ORT TV channel. Sheremet was a news anchor for Russia’s main news program Vremia [En.: Time].

Pavel Sheremet lived in Kyiv for the past five years, working for Ukrayinska Pravda, and was a host on Radio Vesti and other TV and radio channels.

Source: Ukrayinska Pravda