About 100 people came to the intersection of Bohdana Khmelnytskoho and Ivana Franka Streets in central Kyiv on July 20 to mark two years since journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed at the spot in 2016 and demand that the murderers were finally found.
Sheremet, a native of Belarus, worked in Ukrainska Pravda and hosted a show on Radio Vesti. A car bomb killed him as he was driving to work in the early morning of July 20, 2016.
Despite the high profile of the case and the attention it got from international journalism and human rights organizations, the murderers weren’t found. Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko called Sheremet his friend and finding the murderers was “a matter of honor.” Sheremet’s colleagues discovered that the investigators didn’t question key witnesses, including an employee of State Security Service who was at the scene of the crime for unclear reasons.
On the second anniversary of the murder, Ukraine’s police commented on the case progress for the first time in months, saying vaguely that they “found a (suspect) but couldn’t identify him.” Earlier, police said they had no suspects.
