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Deadly shooting in Kyiv

Police and Special Forces officers remain outside a supermarket in the Holosiivskyi district where a shooter takes hostages in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 18, 2026. On the afternoon of April 18, the assailant opens fire on civilians in the Holosiivskyi district before seizing hostages inside the store. Negotiators attempt contact before KORD officers storm the premises and neutralize the offender. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the attacker is a 58-year-old Moscow-born man. The Interior Ministry reports that he possesses a legally registered carbine and shoots four people on the street before killing a fifth hostage inside the supermarket. A sixth victim, a woman around 30 years old, later dies in the hospital. (Photo by Yevhen Kotenko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto) NO USE RUSSIA. NO USE BELARUS.

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