Update May 30: Arkady Babchenko showed up to a press conference on Wednesday, where he confessed to faking his death in order to catch his would-be assassin. Our original article appears below.
Veteran Russian war correspondent Arkady Babchenko was shot three times in the back as he left his apartment in Kiev, dying while in an ambulance headed to the hospital.
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Ukrainian lawmaker Anton Gerashchenko said on Facebook that investigators will be looking at "Russian spy agencies," The Guardian reports, but Russian lawmaker Yevgeny Revenko pointed the finger right back at Kiev, saying: "Ukraine is becoming the most dangerous country for reporters. The Ukrainian government can't guarantee basic freedoms." Over the past few years, several critics of the Kremlin have been murdered in Ukraine, including Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov, who was shot and killed in 2016 while walking into a Kiev hotel.
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