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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has rejected a Ukrainian allegation that Moscow was behind the killing of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko in Kyiv, calling it part of an anti-Russia campaign, TASS reported on May 30.

Babchenko was shot in the back on the doorstep of his Kyiv apartment on May 29 after shopping for food, Ukrainian authorities said.

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