In Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district, a man opened fire on people. According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, six people were killed. Ten wounded victims were taken to hospital, including a child.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the gunman moved along Demiivska Street and shot dead four people there, with a fifth killed later inside a shop. The attacker possessed a registered firearm and renewed his permit in December last year after submitting a medical certificate.
Police evacuate hostages from a supermarket.
Photo of the dead gunman.
Beyond the shooting, the Kyiv gunman also set a flat on fire. Klitschko said that a four-month-old baby suffered carbon-monoxide poisoning near the burning home.
The attacker has been identified as Dmytro Vasylchenkov. He had previously faced criminal charges for beating a man in 2023, but the case was closed in 2024 after the sides reached an agreement and the victim withdrew his claims. It is also known that Vasylchenkov sued the Pension Fund of Ukraine and secured an additional payment of about 2,000 hryvnias—court materials say he was a former serviceman receiving a military pension.
The gunman made no demands.
A number of Telegram channels presenting themselves as media outlets circulated unverified claims that the gunman was allegedly a former serviceman in Russia’s airborne forces. The claim was denied by MP Oleksii Honcharenko; it had earlier been circulated by the journalist Vitalii Hlahola.