Robert Kuzovkov, a 44-year-old Russian artist who built a second life in exile skewering Vladimir Putin with satirical caricatures, was shot and killed at close range near his home in eastern Poland. Two Belarusian nationals were arrested in the aftermath. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the killing bears “all the hallmarks of a political assassination”, and warned that if Moscow ordered it, the act would amount to state terrorism.
The shooting took place in Biała Podlaska, a small town roughly 25 miles from the Belarusian border, where Kuzovkov had lived since fleeing Russia in 2021. He had been granted asylum there. Breitbart News reported that an unidentified gunman approached Kuzovkov, fired two shots from a handgun, waited for him to fall, then moved closer and fired three more times before fleeing.
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