The Ukrainian military officer who was killed in a car bomb Tuesday was investigating Russia's involvement in the war in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian news outlet Lb.ua reported on Tuesday.
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A Ukrainian officer killed in a car bomb was reportedly investigating Russia for international court case
It would be the 13th assassination in Ukraine that can be linked to Russia since 2014.
Investigators work at the scene of a car bomb explosion which killed Maxim Shapoval, a high-ranking official involved in military intelligence, in Kiev, Ukraine, June 27, 2017.
"It was thanks to [Shapoval] that Ukraine was able to substantiate its position in The Hague on Russia's" armed aggression, an anonymous Ukrainian law enforcement official told LB.ua, which was translated by UNIAN.
Shapoval also collected intel on Russia's military actions in the Donbass, including their locations and weapons, Lb.ua reported.
On June 1, a Chechen assassin posing as a French journalist tried to kill a married couple,
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