Ukraine said Wednesday Russia’s “totalitarian machine” was behind the murder of anti-Kremlin reporter Arkady Babchenko, prompting furious denials from Moscow. The prominent Russian war correspondent and former soldier was shot dead on Tuesday evening in an apparent contract-style killing in the stairwell of his building in Kiev. The 41-year-old was the latest in a number of Kremlin critics to have been killed in Kiev in the past two years.
