Woman with slain Putin critic says she didn’t see his killer
Duritskaya said she has been questioned extensively by authorities. Shortly after midnight Monday, Duritskaya flew into an international airport in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv from where she was swiftly whisked away by a security detail in a car with blacked-out windows.
In her first public comments since the killing, Duritskaya said in an interview with Russia’s independent Dozhd television that she waited for Nemtsov to meet her Friday night at the Bosco Cafe,. He had just given a radio interview in which he had slammed Putin’s “mad, aggressive policy” on Ukraine.
They dined and then walked across a bridge near St. Basil’s Cathedral, heading for Nemtsov’s apartment across the Moscow River from the Kremlin, she said, her eyes welling with tears.
Duritskaya said didn’t see the man who shot Nemtsov, only a car speeding up.
“I don’t know where he came from, but he was behind,” she said of the gunman. “I didn’t see the man. I turned round and all I saw was a light-colored car. I saw neither the brand nor the license plate of the car that was driving away.”