According to the newspaper, the diplomat was seriously wounded and was hospitalized.

Media claims that his neighbor attacked Pogansheva. After the incident, according to the newspaper, the attacker committed suicide.

December 19, 2016 in Ankara, while speaking at an exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art, Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was killed.

The chairman of the Investigation Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said that the investigators had restored the route of the perpetrator of the murder of Karlov, the Turkish police officer Mevlut Mert Altyntas.