ross has more. >> reporter: the graphic pictures show what critics believe is the latest example of the long arm of vladimir putin. police surround the body of a former member of the russian parliament, dennis defecting to ukraine and publicly criticizing the russian president. just last month, voronenkov told a reporter for a tv network funded by the u.s., that he accepted his fate as a putin critic. a kremlin spokesman denies any role in the murder, but the president of ukraine is calling it russian state terrorism on orders of putin. just two days ago in moscow, another putin critic, a russian lawyer, nikolai gorokhov, was thrown out of the fourth story of his apartment building and critically injured. under the rule of russian president putin, more than a dozen critics have been targeted for assassinations. lawyers, businessmen, journalists. based on his public comments, none of it has seemed to bother president donald trump. >> putin is a killer. >> a lot of killers. we've got a lot of killers. what, you think our country is so innocent? >> reporter: russian opposition leader, boris nemtsov, told me in 2014 that critics of putin counted on the u.s. to help them stand up to the russian