Prominent journalist killed in car explosion in downtown Kyiv

"The car exploded on the junction of Bohdana Khmelnytskoho and Ivana Franka Streets, in front of a McDonald's fast food restaurant," it said. The car belonged to Ukrayinska Pravda founding editor Olena Prytula, but she was not in the car. The explosion occurred at 07:45 a.m. while Sheremet was driving. Police have arrived at the explosion scene. A moving car exploded and caught fire on the junction of Bohdana Khmelnytskoho and Ivana Franka Streets, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine said. The explosion killed one person and created a 50cm crater. "According to the preliminary information, explosives were placed under the seat," Ukrainian deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko (Petro Poroshenko Bloc) wrote on Facebook. Police have yet to announce possible theories of the explosion. Sheremet was born in Minsk on November 28, 1971. During the 1990s he was an anchor of the Prospekt analytical weekly program of Belarusian television and the chief editor of Belarusskaya Delovaya Gazeta. He also worked for Russian Public Television (ORT, which later became Channel 1) covering events in Belarus. Sheremet had a conflict with the Belarusian authorities in 1997 after filing a report about the situation on the Lithuanian border. He was remanded to pretrial confinement by Belarusian authorities and moved moved to Moscow following his release. For the past few years, he lived in Kyiv, worked for the Ukrayinska Pravda online edition and hosted a morning show on Radio Vesti.