Arkady Babchenko

Arkady Arkadyevich Babchenko (Russian: Аркадий Аркадьевич Бабченко; born 18 March 1977) is a Russian journalist and war correspondent. He was^[source?] a critic of President Vladimir Putin. He was born in Moscow. He temporarily left journalism and worked as a taxi driver for several years, but in January 2009 started working in Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.^[1] As a military correspondent, he followed the South Ossetia war in 2008.^[1]

Babchenko in May 2018

Beginning in October 2017, Babchenko began working in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, for the TV channel ATR.^[1]

Babchenko faked his own assassination at his Kyiv apartment on 29 May 2018 to arrest Russian spies who were plotting (or making a plan about) his assassination.^[2][3] However, the next day, he appeared alive at a press conference with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).^[4] According to the SBU the 'murder' had been staged to arrest his assassins, who were operating on orders by Russian security services.^[4]