A Russian journalist who was reported assassinated just showed up at news conference and announced he faked his own death

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Arkady Babchenko, a Russian journalist and fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, was reported to be assassinated on Tuesday in Ukraine, but then showed alive up at a news conference alive on Wednesday, according to several reports. 

Babchenko, 41, appeared at a news conference in Kyiv, where the Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) said that the reported assassination was a sting operation, according to Russian state-owned media outlet TASS. 

Babchenko was reported shot in the back in his apartment in Kyiv. Reports claimed he died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

"We prevented the attempted murder of Babchenko by conducting a special operation," the SBU chief Vasily Hrytsak said at the conference before Babchenko came out. 

Hrytsak said that an attempt on Babchenko's life had been planned for two months, but was foiled by the SBU. 

See Babchenko appear at the news conference below: