MOSCOW — A prominent radio and television journalist in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, was killed in a car bombing Wednesday, officials said, in one of the highest-profile assassinations of a reporter in the country in years.
The journalist, Pavel Sheremet, 44, a Belarussian citizen who had worked for Russian state television before moving to Ukraine to host a morning radio news program five years ago, died when the car he was driving exploded near Kiev’s government quarter.
Sheremet was among several well-known journalists in Russia who moved to Ukraine, where restrictions on the media are looser, around the time a new government took over in the country, in 2014. Members of this group have been highly critical of the new leadership.
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Yuriy V. Lutsenko, the Ukrainian prosecutor general, said on Facebook that a car bomb had caused the explosion, and he ruled out a technical fault with the vehicle.