Ukrainian
police have detained five people, including a pediatric 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 destabilize the country but declined to say who might have ordered the murder.
The
New York City-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomed the detentions.