[3][4] The Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office stated in July 2016 that the explosion was caused by a bomb and labelled the death of Sheremet a murder.

[5] From 1994 to April 1995, Sheremet was the anchor and producer of Prospekt, a weekly news and analysis program on Belarus state television.

The same year, he also began working for the Russian public television company ORT and was named its Minsk bureau chief in 1996.

[6] Sheremet and one crew member, Dmitry Zavadsky, were later charged with illegal border crossing, "exceeding their professional rights as journalists", and participating in a conspiracy.

[9] In November 1997, Sheremet was one of the signatories of Charter Ninety-Seven, a pro-democracy manifesto demanding an end to "the infringement of basic human rights and liberties by the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko".

[13] In 2012 Sheremet started working at the Internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda (Ukrainian Truth), where he launched a journalistic blog.

[15] Sheremet resigned from the Public Television of Russia (OTR) in July 2014, saying that journalists who didn't follow the "style of Kremlin propaganda" while covering the ongoing crisis in Ukraine were "hounded".

[5] Immediately following his death, an official from Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs said "We cannot rule out the possible participation of the Russian special services in this crime".

[31] On 12 December 2019 Ukrainian mass-media broadcast a televised press conference by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine), with the presence of top officials including President Volodymyr Zelensky, reporting the "successful finalizing of the investigation of Pavel Sheremet' murder".

[31] On 13 December 2019, two of the suspects, namely Andriy Antonenko, a Donbass war veteran and rock-musician, and Yulia Kuzmenko, civil volunteer and pediatric surgeon, were remanded in custody until 8 February 2020.

[38] On 30 January 2020, Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Ruslan Ryaboshapka admitted that the prosecution has not enough evidence needed for the murder case of journalist Pavel Sheremet to go to trial.

Previously William Taylor, the former U.S. chargé d'affaires in Ukraine, has suggested Interior Minister Arsen Avakov isn't certain that the people who were charged with the murder (i.e. Kuzmenko, Antonenko and Dugar) are guilty.

[40][41] On 4 January 2021, the EU Observer reported that new evidence, including documents and audio recordings, was found in connection with Sheremet's murder.

[44] On 22 April 2002, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly announced Sheremet as the winner of its 2002 Prize for Journalism and Democracy, which he would share with Austrian television journalist Friedrich Orter, cited for his human rights reporting in the Balkans and Afghanistan.