The latest on the killing of former Duma Deputy Denis Voronenkov in downtown Kyiv:
Brazen Killing In Kyiv Leaves Exiled Kremlin Critic Dead
By Christopher Miller
KYIV -- A former Russian lawmaker who defected to Ukraine and aired damning criticism of Russia's leadership has been gunned down in broad daylight in the heart of Kyiv in what Ukraine's president called "an act of state terrorism by Russia."
A city police spokesman told RFE/RL that ex-Duma Deputy Denis Voronenkov was killed by a gunman as he and his bodyguard were approaching the five-star Premier Palace Hotel on March 23.
An Interior Ministry spokesman at the scene, Artem Shevchenko, said the attacker fired at least eight shots at the 45-year-old Voronenkov with an "old Soviet pistol." He said the incident was caught on security cameras.
The attacker was shot in the ensuing gunbattle with Voronenkov's lone bodyguard and apprehended by police on the street nearby. He later died in hospital, officials said, but there was initially no word on his identity.
The Interior Ministry spokesman said the bodyguard, who was wounded in the exchange of gunfire with the assailant, was provided by Ukrainian authorities in the past month because there was "reason to fear" that Voronenkov's life might be in danger.