Overview
- Polish authorities say a 44‑year‑old Russian citizen was shot multiple times on a parking lot in Biała Podlaska and that the attack appears to have been a planned, close‑range killing.
- Prosecutors confirmed on Tuesday that two Belarusian nationals were detained and are under investigation but no charges have been filed and inquiries are continuing.
- The victim was identified by opposition media as Semyon Skrepetsky, a satirical artist who lived in Poland since 2021 and who staged an anti‑Putin performance in Berlin days before the killing after which he reported receiving threats.
- Investigators sealed roads, secured exit routes, increased protection at local schools, and said forensic evidence shows the shooter fired additional shots as the victim lay on the ground.
- Poland’s prime minister described the case as showing the features of a political murder and the killing joins a pattern of attacks on Kremlin critics abroad that could heighten diplomatic tensions and prompt wider security reviews in Europe.