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Deadly shooting in Kyiv

Special Forces officers of the Security Service of Ukraine stand outside a supermarket where a shooter took hostages in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 18, 2026. On the afternoon of April 18, the assailant 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 attacker 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)

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