KIEV, April 16. /TASS/. A well-known Ukrainian journalist Sergey Sukhobok has been killed in Kiev, an Obkom news portal reported on Thursday.

Sukhobok, a co-founder of Obkom and ProUA online media outlets, was murdered overnight to April 13, the statement on the news portal says, revealing no further details.

The report hasn't yet been officially confirmed.

Sukhobok, a native of the war-hit Donbas, eastern Ukraine, had been working as a journalist since 1998. He was formerly an analyst of a Delovoy Donbas (Business Donbas) weekly.

He has been recently working as a freelance journalist.