The Ukrainian National Police did not confirm the information about the alleged pursuit of and attempts to detain two people suspected of killing journalist Pavel Sheremet.
“This information about the manhunt is not confirmed,” deputy director of the National Police communications department Mykola Hulevych told Interfax-Ukraine, commenting on the media reports on August 15.
The police are constantly working intensively to solve this crime, taking all necessary actions and verifying all the information which is coming to them, Hulevych said.
“I still do not have such information [about the measures Kyiv is taking to detain suspected killers of Sheremet],” Ukrainian Deputy Interior Minister Serhiy Yarovy said.
Besides, “the National Police are not conducting any such measures as the Observer has written about,” a source with the law enforcement agencies told Interfax-Ukraine.
On July 20, journalist Sheremet was killed in the explosion of a car, which he had been driving, in central Kyiv. The car was owned by Olena Prytula, head of the Ukrainska Pravda online publication, where the killed journalist had worked.
The police are taking measures to detain a man and a woman suspected of killing Sheremet in Kyiv; pursuit of a car is under way.
