[TheCruxofBag]

At least six people have been killed and others injured after a person opened fire in Kyiv on Saturday, Ukrainian officials say.

The incident happened in the southern Holosiivskyi district. Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the man, who lived locally, began shooting at people on the street and then took others hostage in a nearby supermarket. Klymenko said the attacker was killed in the supermarket following a shoot-out with police. His motive is currently unclear.

Ukraine's prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, identified the shooter as a 58-year-old man from the Russian capital, Moscow, and said he had used an automatic weapon to carry out the fatal shooting.

The exact number of victims also remains unclear, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 14 people were known to have been injured, including a 12-year-old boy.

Zelensky said the shooter had lived in the eastern Donetsk region - which is largely under Russian occupation and was subject to a separatist conflict prior to Moscow's full-scale invasion - for "a long time".

He also said that the man had set fire to his apartment before leaving to begin his shooting spree.

He said four people had been killed on the street while a woman, thought to be around 30 years old, died later in hospital. The attacker also killed a hostage. Police negotiators spoke to the shooter for around 40 minutes while he was in the supermarket, Klymenko said. He described the man as "acting chaotically".

The weapon used by the attacker was officially registered, officials said. The circumstances surrounding the issuing of the permit, as well as the shooting itself, are now being investigated.

[Mecrupulent]

As if they didn't have enough on their hands with the war

Now russians and/or their supporters commit mass shootings in their streets

[BRVTALIST]

The fuck kinda gun is that?

[Mecrupulent]

Originally Posted by BRVTALIST ↗

The fuck kinda gun is that?

I asked myself the same question.

[Sick0ne1]

Originally Posted by Mecrupulent ↗

I asked myself the same question.

Per reports, The weapon used in the attack was preliminarily identified as a KelTec SUB-2000 carbine that was legally registered.

[Xploit Machine]

Originally Posted by BRVTALIST ↗

The fuck kinda gun is that?

Originally Posted by Mecrupulent ↗

I asked myself the same question.

S&W Kel Tec Sub 2000 .40

[kellyhound]

Local media named the perpetrator as Dmytro Vasylchenkov, a Ukrainian citizen who was born in Moscow. He had previously lived in the Russian city of Ryazan and was a longtime resident of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region. He had a criminal record, Zelenskyy said.

According to a leaked Russian database, Vasylchenkov had multiple Russian bank accounts until at least 2021 and a Russian phone number. He travelled several times to Russia in 2016.

Reports said he posted anti-Ukrainian and antisemitic content on social media and denied Ukraine’s right to exist as a country. He also fantasised about “cleansing” society using Hitler’s methods and regretted that Russia’s capture of Bakhmut in 2023 did not happen sooner.

It is unclear what, if any, contact he may have had with Russia. Kremlin operatives have recruited more than 800 Ukrainians over the past two years, many of them teenagers, to carry out attacks on critical infrastructure and draft offices. The goal, officials say, is to spread uncertainty, fear and distrust.

Two police officers fled the scene of a shooting in Kyiv, leaving civilians behind.

The law enforcement officers arrived at the scene after reports of gunshots. However, upon seeing a man with a weapon, they ran away, leaving civilians and a child at the scene. One of the adults was unable to escape.

[DarkSighted]

"He described the man as "acting chaotically"."
-Not acting, I'd say.

Interesting that the clip appears to have green tape on it, a designating color commonly used by ukranian forces afield.

[foxfantastic]

....so that was completely pointless

[Necrotic Bowel]

There’s a Chicken Kyiv joke here somewhere. I can feel it