The tears were flowing as Liudmila Sheremet made her way down the avenue. She had to get to work, she told herself. Not to tune in to her son’s morning show and greet him – in the way she usually did, from hundreds of miles away in Minsk – with a smile, a wave, and a “hi, son,” or a “why are you in that scruffy T-shirt?” No, to get to her desk, open her computer, and to hope what her granddaughter had just told her was an awful mistake.
Independent: After the assassination of a journalist, Ukraine is left with more questions than answers
A man holds a portrait of journalist Pavel Sheremet at his memorial in Kyiv, on July 20, 2021, the 5th anniversary of Sheremet's murder. The crime remains unsolved.