Kyiv supermarket shooting

A gunman killed six people in a Kyiv supermarket attack on April 18 before Ukrainian police stormed the building and shot him dead. (apnews.com) The shooting began in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district, where officials said the attacker opened fire on people in the street and then barricaded himself inside a supermarket with hostages. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said negotiators tried for about 40 minutes to make contact before special tactical units went in. (cbsnews.com) Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said the attacker was a 58-year-old man born in Moscow, and officials said no motive had been established by April 19. Klymenko said the gunman used a legally registered carbine and had sought to renew the permit in December 2025. (aljazeera.com) Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said eight wounded people, including a child, remained in hospital on April 19. Earlier official counts put the total number of injured at 14, including a 12-year-old boy. (usnews.com) The case quickly widened from a mass shooting into a test of Ukraine’s policing during wartime. President Volodymyr Zelensky said officers who fled the scene “were required to act,” and he ordered a review of response protocols, hiring and training. (kyivindependent.com) Yevhen Zhukov, the head of Ukraine’s patrol police, resigned on April 19 after video circulated online appearing to show two officers running from the gunfire. Zhukov called their actions “shameful,” and the two officers were suspended pending an investigation. (kyivindependent.com) Prosecutors opened a criminal case into possible police negligence, and the State Bureau of Investigation is examining whether officers failed to act quickly enough and whether a child was left in danger. Interior Minister Klymenko said the conduct of the two officers was “a disgrace for the entire system,” while also praising the units that carried out the assault on the supermarket. (kyivindependent.com) By April 19, the attack had left Kyiv with six dead, eight people still hospitalized, and a police leadership shake-up less than a day after the gunfire stopped. Investigators were still trying to establish the gunman’s motive and how he kept a valid weapons permit. (usnews.com)