A well-known environmentalist, Volodymyr Honcharenko, has died following a brutal and clearly targeted attack...The attack came four days after a press conference at which Mr Honcharenko warned of a “chemical time bomb” from 180 tons of chemically contaminated and radioactive scrap metal being transported around Kryvy Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The danger from the toxic load could extend beyond Ukraine since there are grounds for fearing that the highly toxic material could end up in scrap metal exported abroad. Whether this particular issue is linked with Honcharenko’s murder should be the subject of scrupulous investigation.