Immediately after it became known about the murder of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko on the threshold of his own apartment in Kiev, the official Ukrainian people said that they were linking the crime to the professional activities of the victim. Given the unequivocal anti-Russian position of the publicist, this can be called a direct accusation against Moscow. However, even open attacks against Russia were not long in coming. One of the first to hasten to lay the blame for the shooting of a journalist in the Ukrainian capital, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko. "Putin's regime is aimed at those who can not be broken or intimidated," he categorically stated on his Facebook page. However, those who know the real political weight of Arkady Babchenko doubted that his bilious comments with respect to, basically, ordinary Russians could play a significant geopolitical role.

But his murder, ill-wishers of Russia are able to play as a powerful trump card. It is noteworthy that Anton Gerashchenko himself talked about this. "You became one more martyr for freedom of Russia and for peace in Ukraine. "- he wrote, almost directly calling the murdered journalist another sacred sacrifice, laid on the altar of Russophobic hysteria in Ukraine and in the countries of the West. As users of the Network have noticed, Ukraine is one of the few parties to whom the murder of a Russian journalist could benefit.