Director of the Department of Information and Press of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova responded to the resurrection of journalist Arkady Babchenko. In her opinion, this is "the best news". Zakharova is sure that initially Kiev was preparing this provocation to again accuse Moscow. "Always would be so. It's a pity, in other cases the masquerade did not work out. The fact that the propaganda effect was laid down in history is obvious, "she wrote on her Facebook page. Recall Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was shot on the verge of his apartment in Kiev, several shots in the back. The Ukrainian side accused Russia of what had happened.

However, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Geraschenko managed to say that the publicist was another sacred victim, so necessary to Ukraine. According to another version of the crime was committed as a provocation to disrupt the World Cup in Russia. However, at a press conference SBU Babchenko "resurrected". It turned out that all this was a staged, as in Kiev they knew about the impending assassination attempt and wanted to protect the journalist.