In Kiev the explosion of the car was killed well-known journalists Paul Szeremeta – Virtual Poland

• 44-year-old Paul is dead Szeremeta

 • The well-known journalist was killed in a car explosion

 • The prosecutor said that this was a coup and assassination

 • The Ukrainian authorities announced finding the perpetrators

 • Petro Poroshenko: guilty will be punished

The explosion occurred in a car at the intersection of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Ivan Franko, in the center of the Ukrainian capital, at approx. 7.45 local time (hr. 6.45 Polish time).

The car belonged to the head of the Internet newspaper “Ukrainian Truth” Olena Prytuły. She was not in the car at the time of the explosion. Szeremeta and Prytula, who privately were a couple, recently complained that they are being followed.
 

 According quoted by Radio Svaboda editor-in-chief of “Ukrainian Truth” Sewhili Musajewy-Borowyk Szeremeta death was linked to his professional activities, and doubtful that it was a random victim.
 

quoted by the editors of the Belarusian Radio Svaboda Ihor Hużwa, former head of the holding Vesti, he notes that Szeremeta drove every morning to the radio, where he ran the program. – Those who prepared the assassination studied the art of his movement, probably every morning drove this car. It is therefore possible that it was he who was the target – considered the caller Swabody.
 

The Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko said that Szeremeta was murdered. “Reports from the place of events indicate that the death of Paul Szeremeta a result of the explosion of an explosive device. It was murder,” – Lutsenko wrote on Facebook. In turn, the press service of the Kiev police submitted that the event has been classified as premeditated murder.
 

 The same opinion was expressed adviser to the head of the Interior Ministry Zorian Szkiriak. According to his information, a vehicle in which there was a journalist, was destroyed by the explosion of a load whose power corresponded to 400-600 grams of TNT. Szkiriak stressed that these are preliminary findings.
 

Poroshenko: guilty must be punished
 

The investigation took over the supervision of the President of Petro Poroshenko. He said that the death of a journalist is a “terrible tragedy.” “Shock – there is no other word. I knew Paul personally, feel sorry for his family and friends” – wrote the Head of State on Facebook.
 

Poroshenko instructed law enforcement agencies immediate explanation of the crime. “The guilty must be punished,” – he stressed.
 

With the same appeal addressed to the investigating authorities, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.
 

Outstanding journalist
 

Szeremeta – journalist, author of documentaries and books, for five years he lived in Kiev, worked for the “Ukrainian Truth”; He was the presenter of the radio Vesti. His career in journalism began in Belarus, and its critical materials about the rule of President Alexander Lukashenko and the conflict with the authorities meant that he left the country and lived for years in Russia. He was the founder of the opposition portal Belorussky Partizan.
 

Death Szeremeta is live discussed on the Internet. Compared to a made in 2000 murder of journalist of the newspaper “Ukrainska Pravda” Georgiy Gongadze.
 

Political analyst Mykhailo Honchar has estimated that the event could be Russia, which in recent times “creates multikryzysową situation in Ukraine.” In his opinion, shows that the resumption of the activity of militant pro-Russian separatists in the Donbas and calling conflictual situation inside the country. Among them they were just murder Szeremeta.
 

“totally fits in the canons of hybrid war in which the enemy attacked not so much military activities from the outside, as breaking from the inside” – wrote on Facebook.
 

 Szeremeta was born in Minsk. He began work as a journalist in the Belarusian television in the early 90s, in the middle of the decade was the editor “Biełorusskiej Dielowoj Gazeta”, one of the best independent newspapers, and later closed. In 1996, he was bureau chief and correspondent in Belarus, the Russian ORT television.
 

He worked together with the operator Dzmitry Zawadzki, collectively they shook their documentary about the war in Chechnya ( “Official Chechen”). in 2000, Zawadzki disappeared on the way to the airport, his body was not found and the circumstances of his disappearance remain unclear. Szeremeta later shot two films devoted to unexplained disappearances so far known public figures in Belarus. Szeremeta and Zawadzki were tried together in 1997 for a violation of the Belarusian border and sentenced to conditional sentences.
 

In 1998 Szeremeta won the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), who pointed out then that the journalist in different ways was harassed by the authorities for describing the return of Belarus to authoritarianism. In 2010 Szeremeta was stripped of his citizenship in Belarus, which was justified by the fact that the adopted Russian citizenship.
 

ORT television Szeremeta passed away in 2008, later worked for other Russian media – independent REN TV, the magazine “Ogoniok.” In recent years, he worked for the Ukrainian media.
 

Along with Svetlana Kalinkina wrote the book “The Accidental President” of Alaksandrze Lukashenko. He also wrote a book about the policies of Russian and Russian-Georgian war in 2008. The protagonists of his documentaries were: creator of the free-market transformations in Russia Yegor Gaidar and the last Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.