Polish PM Tusk Says Caricaturist’s Murder Could Be ‘State Terrorism’

Polish police arrested a man carrying a Georgian passport on suspicion of the murder of a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at RAF Northolt airbase in London on May 27, 2026. Jack Taylor/Reuters

Polish authorities arrested a 36-year-old man on June 18 on suspicion of assassinating a caricaturist and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on June 17 that it was too early to say if the killing of Robert Kuzovkov, a 44-year-old Russian artist who used the pseudonym Semyon Skrepetsky, in the town of Biala Podlaska in eastern Poland on June 15 was a political assassination.