FILE PHOTO: Journalist Pavel Sheremet talks on the air at a radio station in Kiev, Ukraine, October 11, 2015. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian police have detained five people, including a paediatric surgeon and a rock musician, over the killing of an investigative journalist in a car bomb in July 2016, law enforcement officials said on Thursday.
Briefing journalists alongside President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the officials said the motive for killing 44-year-old Pavel Sheremet, a Belarusian, was to destabilise the country but declined to say who might have ordered the murder.
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