On March 5, member of the Ukrainian delegation for the first round of negotiations with Moscow was assassinated in Kiev.
The Ukrainian negotiator who took part at the first Russian-Ukrainian meeting in Gomel Kireev Denis Borisovich was killed in the center of the capital near the building of the Pecherskiy court. He was shot in his head.
The Ukrainian newspaper UNIAN reported that Mr. Kireev was killed after he was detained by members of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). According to media reports, Denis Kireev was suspected of treason.
Mr. Kireev was close to the former deputy Prime Minister during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych, Andrei Klyuev, according to the Ukrainian newspaper Country.ua. He worked in the banking sector.
In the Luhansk region, the mayor of Kremennaya village Vladimir Struk was found dead on March 1. He had previously proposed local deputies to start communication with Russia.
According to his wife, he was stolen by unknown gunmen. Later his body was found with a gunshot wound to the heart.
On March 4, the opposition deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Nestor Shufrich was captured by fighters of the so-called territorial defense at one of the Ukrainian checkpoints. He called to stop fighting and to for peace with Russia. His current location is unknown.






