police surround the body of a former member of the russian parliament, dennis voronenkov, shot dead on streets of the capital city kiev after 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, 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 there 2014 that critics of putin counted on the u.s. to he

police surround the body of a member of the russian parliament, dennis voronenkov, shot dead this morning on the streets of the capitol city kiev after 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 tonight 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, 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. a lot of killers. what? you think our country is so innocent? >> reporter: russian opposition leader, boris nemtsov, told me there 2014 that critics of putin counted on the u.s.

police surround the body of a member of the russian parliament, dennis voronenkov, shot dead this morning on the streets of the capitol city kiev after 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. aimed at russia, that he accepted his fate as a putin critic. a kremlin spokesman tonight 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, another putin critic, a russian lawyer 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. you think our country is so innocent? >> reporter: a rush opposition told me that putin's critics counted on the u.s. to help stand up further russian president. >> everyone against

. >> dennis voronenkov was gowunn down. officials believe russia is to blame.at ukraine's military prosecutor's office, the purpose of which was not immediately clear. in an interview last morn, voronenkov said he was not concerned for his safety and was not going to hide. the ukraine government did not agree, providing him with a bodyguard who was injured in thrgs's fire fight after shooting and killing voronenkov's attacker. e joins a growing list of people, all crical of the russian government and president vladimir putin, including alexander lip van co-who drank tea given to him by russia's security services with president putin's knowledge. another was kidnapped and killed in 2009. >> this was retaliation for my political activities in the russian. >> another critic is recovering from a second alleged poisoning. he spoke to "60 minutes" by his first alleged attack. >> i was at one point connected with eight different life support machines and doctors told me wife, only a 5% chance i would survive. >> he survived both incidents. his friend and opposition le