Ukrainian police have completed an investigation against three people suspected of killing journalist Pavlo Sheremet, namely the musician Andriy Antonenko, doctor Yulia Kuzmenko, and military nurse Yana Duhar, Kuzmenko’s defense attorney Taras Bezpaly told Interfax-Ukraine on May 22.
“Official notifications on the completion of the pretrial investigation were handed today” to all suspects, Bezpaly said.
A car driven by Sheremet was blown up in central Kyiv early on July 20, 2016. The journalist died at the scene soon after the explosion.
On Dec. 12, 2019, police conducted a number of searches and notified several people of their status as suspects in the Sheremet assassination case. Later that day, the National Police and Interior Ministry held a news briefing, at which President Volodymyr Zelensky also spoke, to inform the public about a number of interim investigation findings and the suspects’ names.
Zelensky said on May 20, that he felt responsibility as the head of state for the investigation into Sheremet’s assassination, and if it turned out that the suspects were not guilty, he would have to make some reshuffles.
