Editorial photo #13594755 Crime, Law and Justice
Deadly shooting in Kyiv
A Special Forces officer stands guard outside a supermarket where an armed individual took hostages in the Holosiivskyi district, Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 18, 2026. On the afternoon of April 18, the individual opened fire on civilians in the Holosiivskyi district before taking hostages inside the store. Negotiators attempted contact before KORD officers entered the premises and apprehended the individual. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the individual was a 58-year-old Moscow-born man. The Interior Ministry reported that he possessed a legally registered carbine and shot four people on the street before a fifth hostage was killed inside the supermarket. A sixth victim, a woman around 30 years old, later died in the hospital. (Photo by Yevhen Kotenko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto) NO USE RUSSIA. NO USE BELARUS.
