MOSCOW (AP) – A senior Ukrainian official says the killer of Kremlin critic Denis Voronenkov, who was gunned down in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, was a Russian agent.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, identified the man who shot Voronenkov on Thursday as 28-year-old Pavel Parshov and said he had been trained in Russia by Russian security services. He was killed in the attack.
“He underwent a special course at a school for saboteurs,” Gerashchenko wrote Friday in a Facebook post.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters that Gerashchenko’s allegation was “absurd.”
Voronenkov, a former Russian lawmaker who became a vociferous critic of Moscow following his recent move to Ukraine, was shot dead near the entrance to an upscale hotel in the center of Kiev.