In Kiev, the court released a suspect detained in the case relating to an attempt at assassination on Babcenko

According to DW reports

the main office The military prosecutor, at a meeting held on December 19, withdrew his charges against Stelmashenka in preparation for a terrorist attack. At the same time, Stelmashenko acknowledged the culprit of illegally storing weapons. For this, the court sentenced him to five years imprisonment and a three-year probation.

SBU arrested Taras Stelmashenka on June 13th. Law enforcement officers learned from the phone of Boris Herman, who was at that time under arrest, suspected of ordering the assassination of 39, a journalist. In an apartment Stelmashenka found an unregistered gun with cartridges. The SBU then declared that in May 2018, along with two other Ukrainian citizens, they had gone to Rostov-on-Don, where they had been instructed to organize terrorist attacks in Ukraine. At the same time, Stelmashenko and his satellites had bought the same Herman at the request of Vyacheslav Pivovarnik. His investigation considers him the main organizer of a number of terrorist attacks that he has managed to prevent. According to law enforcement officials, Stelmashenko reportedly led a group of people preparing an attempt to attack Babcenko.

On December 20, the Shevchenko court will hold a preparatory meeting on Vyacheslav Pivovarnik. He is still looking for people, but the SBU has accused him of treason by the state, organizing the preparation for a terrorist attack, financing terrorism and the illegal circulation of arms. .

On 29 May 2018, a Russian journalist, Arkadi Babchenko, was shot dead in Kiev. who lived and worked in Ukraine. On May 30, at an information meeting, the head of the Ukrainian Security Service, Vasyl Hrytsak, said that Arkady Babchenko was alive and that his assassination was actually a special operation of the SBU

. organization of the murder of journalist Arkady Babchenko. Subsequently, the Shevchenkivsky District Court in Kiev arrested Hermann for two months without the right to make an undertaking.

Later, the volunteer and participant in the fighting in the Donbass Alexei Tsimbalyuk said that it was precisely him who was "the executor of the assassination" of Arkady Babchenko. The SBU and the prosecutor's office confirmed this information.

Boris German at the court also said that he "had actually ordered" the assassination of Babchenko to a former participant in the fighting on the Donbass Alexei Tsimbalyuk, but that it was not necessary to apparently acted as an imitation of the order. In addition, Herman called the court the name of the alleged client of the Russian Federation – Vyacheslav Pivovarnyk, born and raised in Ukraine, but some time ago he left for Russia and would work in the "personal fund" President Vladimir Putin.