- The Ukrainian security service said that a plan to assassinate Babchenko had been planned for two months, and that Ukrainian Security Services foiled the attempt.
- The Ukrainian security service also said that Russia intelligence paid an assassin $30,000 to carry out the hit, and that the would-be assassin had been apprehended.
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A Russian journalist who was reported assassinated just showed up at news conference and announced he faked his own death
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said that a plan to assassinate Babchenko had been planned for two months by Russia, and that Ukrainian Security Services foiled the attempt.
Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist and fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was reported to be assassinated on Tuesday in Ukraine, but then showed alive up at a news conference alive on Wednesday, according to several reports.
Babchenko, 41, appeared at a news conference in Kyiv, where the Ukrainian security service (SBU) said that the reported assassination was a sting operation.
Babchenko had been reportedly shot in the back in his apartment in Kyiv on Tuesday, dying in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. It was reported that his wife found him and called the ambulance.
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The SBU also said that the assassin was apprehended, and that Russian intelligence had paid the assassin $30,000 thousand for the hit.
See Babchenko appear at the news conference below:
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