Leading journalist killed in Kiev car bombing

A prominent journalist was killed in a car bombing in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, yesterday morning, sending shockwaves through Ukraine’s journalist community that was shaped by the gruesome killing 16 years ago of the founder of the publication he worked for.

The country’s top online news website, ‘Ukrainska Pravda’, said its journalist Pavel Sheremet, 44, died in an explosion as he got into his car to drive to work to anchor a talk show on a local radio station.

It said the car was owned by its founding editor Olena Prytula, who was Sheremet’s romantic partner.