Voice of America: Pro-Western journalist killed by car bomb in Ukraine By Voice of America. Published July 20, 2016 at 3:23 pm An investigator examines an explosion site of a burnt car where Pavel Sheremet was killed on July 20 in Kyiv. Photo by Volodymyr Petrov A prominent Belarusian journalist was killed in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on July 20 in a car explosion. Read the story here.