As Ukraine accused Russia of state-sponsored terrorism in killing former MP and Kremlin critic Denis Voronenkov in Kiev, Vladimir Putin chose to go to the theatre to see a play called The Last Victim, APA reports citing Daily Mail.
With both countries awash with conspiracy theories over who ordered his assassination, it was noted he died four years to the day after another Putin enemy - Boris Berezovsky - was found dead in unexplained circumstances in Britain.
The assassin was named as Pavel Parshov, 28, who the authorities in Kiev claimed was a Russian 'sleeper' agent who had been planted in the Ukrainian national guard.
Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Anton Heraschenko claimed he had served for 13 months with the guard, which he 'entered as an agent of the Russian secret services'.
Parshov gunned down Voronenkov, 45, in a street in Kiev yesterday but the former MP's Ukrainian bodyguard fired back and the assassin died of his injuries a few hours later.
The victim, a former Communist MP, warned in his final portentous interview: 'In Russia the system would like to destroy me, to hurt me so that I cannot breathe.'
A leading Moscow military analyst had also made a chilling prediction last month that Voronenkov would be assassinated, but claimed the true culprit was anti-Putin forces in Russia seeking to cause him trouble.
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