Kazakh opposition journalist remains in deep coma after assassination attempt
Pravda Ukraine
Kazakh opposition journalist Aidos Sadykov, against whom an assassination attempt was made on 18 June in Kyiv, is in a deep coma.
Source: Natalia Sadykova, the journalist’s wife, on Facebook
Quote: “Aidos is in intensive care in a deep coma. Aidos is desperately fighting for his life. Statistically, the survival rate after a gunshot wound to the head is about 5%. Aidos is in that 5%.
After the surgery, doctors said it would be a miracle if he survived the night. Aidos has been alive for five days… Doctors predict 0.01% that everything will be fine.”
Background:
- In Kyiv, in the Shevchenkivskyi District, on the afternoon of 18 June, an unknown person approached a car and shot at Kazakh opposition journalist Aidos Sadykov, who was in the car.
- The wife of opposition Kazakh journalist Aidos Sadykov, in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda, said that her husband is in intensive care in serious condition. She is also convinced that Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was involved in the murder attempt.
- Later, it became known that two citizens of Kazakhstan suspected of the attempted murder of Sadykov crossed the border with Moldova on the day of the crime and had been put on the international wanted list.
- Tokayev, commenting on the attack on Sadykov in Kyiv on 18 June, said that, if necessary, the official authorities of Kazakhstan are ready to join the investigation.
- On 22 June, Altai Zhakanbayev, one of the suspects in the attempted murder of journalist Aidos Sadykov, was detained in Kazakhstan after he himself turned to the police.
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