Immediately after the murder of journalist Arkady Babchenko, in Kiev they started talking about a possible Russian trace in the incident. Thus, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin issued a statement in which he does not blame Russia openly, but makes it clear who he thinks is behind the murder. Speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine, he said that Russia was taking "different tactics to destabilize Ukraine," RIA Novosti reports.. The Foreign Minister noted that Babchenko was "a well-known opponent of the Russian regime". In his opinion, the journalist "continued to fight for democratic Russia from Ukraine," and drew attention to the fact that "Moscow has always seen him as an enemy". Then, Klimkin hinted that the man killed in Russia was threatened. In Moscow, they suspected that Kiev would once again blame Russia for what had happened. "We can assume that the Ukrainian authorities will blame Russia for this. This has happened more than once before, "the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, said within the framework of the UN Security Council.

He noted that the crimes against "independent and opposition journalists" are not investigated in the Nezalezhnaya, the journalists are fleeing the country, and those who did not manage to escape are arrested, but Ukraine persistently continues to blame Russia for what is happening. Russian senator Alexei Pushkov suspects that the murder of Arkady Babchenko is nothing but a provocation. He advises to look for those who benefit from it. "There have already begun attempts to link Babchenko's murder to his opposition to the Kremlin. It's very similar to a new bloody provocation, "he wrote on his Twitter.