Shooting of a Kazakh journalist in Kyiv: husband says who he suspects

The wife of Kazakh opposition journalist Aidos Sadykov, who was murdered in Kyiv on Tuesday, June 18, is convinced that the President of Kazakhstan, Kasim-Jomart Tokayev, was involved in the assassination attempt. Natalya Sadykova spoke about this in a commentary in Ukrainskaya Pravda.

“Since 2018, when Aidos started releasing Basse media, he gathered a large audience, he also helped people organize protests, and in recent years, after the revolution in Kazakhstan, Tokayev has brutally purged the entire field of information convicted, who bribed, sent someone to prison, and Aidos and I were the only ones who criticized the authorities In addition, we criticized the Putin regime.

Natalya Sadykova connected the attempt on the man’s life with her professional activities.

Sadykova also reported that her husband was in serious condition in intensive care;

We remind you that on Tuesday in Kyiv an unknown person shot the driver of a car in Shevchenkovsky district and disappeared. The victim of the attack was Kazakh opposition journalist Aidos Sadykov. He is known for criticizing the Kazakh authorities on YouTube. His channel has more than 1 million subscribers. The last video on the channel was released before the assassination attempt. In it, the President of Kazakhstan, Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev, is called a “puppet of Russian influence.” The injured man is in hospital in serious condition. Law enforcement officials are taking steps to determine the identity of the attacker.