Unknown assailants on Monday shot dead a Russian diplomat in the capital of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, also seriously injuring his wife, authorities in the separatist territory said.
“First secretary at the embassy of the Russian Federation in Abkhazia, Dmitry Vishernev, was murdered in a criminal attack in Sukhumi,” the Russian-backed territory’s foreign ministry said in a statement. “His spouse was badly wounded,” the statement said, without giving further details.