Former Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov was shot and killed in Kyiv Thursday in what the Ukrainian president described as an "act of state terrorism" by Russia, an accusation the Kremlin angrily rejected. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Voronenkov's killing "clearly shows the handwriting of Russian special services shown repeatedly in various European capitals in the past." Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, dismissed the claim of Russian involvement in the killing as "absurd" in a statement carried by Russian news agencies. A Ukrainian police officer collects a gun at the scene where former Russian MP Denis Voronenkov was shot dead in the centre of Kyiv. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)After his move to Ukraine, Russian investigators filed fraud charges against Voronenkov in connection with his business activities.

Source: CBC News March 23, 2017 13:04 UTC