The 3-year-old son of a regional Ukrainian lawmaker and businessman on December 1 died from a gunshot wound in central Kyiv, RFE/RL reported, citing local media.
The father, Kyiv regional council lawmaker Vycheslav Sobolyev, was with his family leaving a restaurant he owns when an unknown assailant approached the Range Rover he was driving and fired at the moving car.
The child was shot inside the vehicle and died in an ambulance en route to a hospital, police said.
A police search for the shooter is under way and the incident is being investigated as premeditated murder.
The company founded by Sobolyev, a businessman from the Donetsk region town of Yenakiyeve, the hometown of former President Viktor Yanukovych, has been investigated in relation to financing terrorism in eastern Ukraine, where an armed conflict with Moscow-backed separatists has existed since April 2014.
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