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8 remain hospitalized after Kyiv shooting that killed 6

by Reuters

KYIV Apr 19, 2026 - 3:00 pm GMT+3
A special team policeman stands in front of a bullet hole in the window of a supermarket after a shooting in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 18, 2026. (AFP Photo)
A special team policeman stands in front of a bullet hole in the window of a supermarket after a shooting in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 18, 2026. (AFP Photo)
by Reuters Apr 19, 2026 3:00 pm

Eight people, including a child, remain hospitalized in Kyiv after a shooting that killed six, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Sunday.

A Russian-born man opened ⁠fire from an automatic ⁠rifle on passersby Saturday before barricading himself in a supermarket with hostages, where he was shot ​dead by police.

Police stormed the supermarket ​after ⁠unsuccessfully trying to negotiate with the suspect for 40 minutes.

Klitschko said the wounded child, whose parents were killed in the shooting, was in moderate condition, while one of the adults was in critical condition.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that the shooting, which happened in the capital's leafy Holosiivskyi district, injured 14 people.

"They are all receiving all necessary medical care," the mayor said on Telegram.

The supermarket ⁠has ⁠been cordoned off and remains closed. Bullet holes are visible in the windows of the supermarket and blood stains can still be seen on the pavement and asphalt.

Flowers were left near a residential building a couple of hundred metres from the supermarket, where the shooter shot his first victims.

"I saw how people grabbed children ⁠from the playground and ran away. They screamed: 'run away, hide.' People didn't understand what was going on. They said that there was a ​man there, a man was shooting with a machine gun," Daryna, ​a 31-year-old local resident, told Reuters.

Another local, 73-year-old pensioner, told Reuters that the man he saw ⁠shooting ‌bystanders ‌on Saturday "looked kind of smart."

"I don't want to ⁠clear him of blame or ‌anything like that ... but he didn't look like a killer."

Shootings of ​this nature are extremely ⁠rare in Ukraine and the country's security ⁠service said the incident was being investigated as a terrorist ⁠act.

Police have ​not yet identified a motive for the crime.

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