Veteran war journalist Arkady Babchenko was reported dead after he was shot at his apartment in Kiev on Tuesday, May 29. But it was an attempt to foil the plan of people who actually wanted to kill him. It came as a shock to everyone when Babchenko made his presence felt, all in good health at a police press conference on Wednesday afternoon. The press conference held in Ukraine was arranged to share updates about his own murder case.

When Babchenko arrived in the conference he was greeted with some great surprises and applause from the members. It was just less than 24 hours when there was a report of how his wife had found him bleeding to death on their apartment floor. He was pronounced dead in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. After making an appearance he first apologised for all that everyone had to go through. "First of all, I would like to apologize that all of you had to live through this, because I know the horrible feeling when you have to bury your colleagues. Separately, I want to apologize to my wife for all the hell she had to go through," he said.

See how people reacted to seeing Arkady Babchenko alive:

The senior officials from Ukrainian Security were with Babchenko on this plan. There were a lot of threats made against his life. There was a contract of $40,000 to kill him. The only way to get in connection with who was behind it was to show that he was actually dead. This fake death plan was in place for a month or two. And with the operation, the police have found one person in connection with the death threats.

This fake death also caused repercussions as it led to tensions between Kiev and Moscow, both which accused each other of carrying out the death. Babchenko is known to be highly critical of the Russian government and he had left Russia in 2017 writing that it was “a country I no longer feel safe in”. So the news of his death caused more tensions and Moscow even had some propaganda machines in place to say it was all to make Russia look bad by Ukraine. Life of a war journalist has its twists and turns and Arkady Babchenko had a life and death situation for real to show his actual presence.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on May 30, 2018 11:13 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).