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  "path": "/news/1993009/at-least-6-killed-after-gunman-opens-fire-in-ukrainian-capital",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T19:00:52.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Six people were killed in Kyiv on Saturday after a gunman opened fire and took hostages at a supermarket in the Ukrainian capital before being killed during an arrest attempt, officials said.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that at least 14 people were hospitalised with wounds and trauma after the shooting and hostage-taking, which took place in a residential district in the city’s south.\n\n“He was holding hostages and, unfortunately, killed one of them. He killed four people right on the street. Another woman died in the hospital from severe injuries,” Zelensky said on social media, adding that four hostages from the supermarket “have been rescued”.\n\n> Footage posted by the _UNIAN_ news agency, which _AFP_ was unable to immediately verify, showed a man carrying a gun and shooting at a person from close range near a block of flats.\n\nThe suspect then entered a supermarket where gunshots were heard, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said.\n\nFour hostages from the supermarket “have been rescued”, Zelensky said on social media.\n\n“The attacker in Kyiv who opened fire on civilians has been eliminated,” Zelensky said, offering condolences to the families of the victims.\n\nAn _AFP_ reporter saw the supermarket — which had blood stains on its shop window — cordoned off by a heavy security presence, with officers wearing bulletproof vests and crime investigators arriving at the scene.\n\nThe assailant’s motive was not immediately known.\n\n> ## 40-minute standoff\n\nUkrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said the suspect was a 58-year-old man born in Moscow and that, according to initial reports, “he used an automatic weapon”.\n\nAn employee of the supermarket, Tetyana, told _AFP_ that she had heard sounds “in the store, like champagne being popped or balloons bursting several times. Then the customers started shouting, ’Run!’\n\n“There’s a spot where you can hide behind the refrigerators, and we ran there. I heard a man moaning,” she recounted, her voice trembling.\n\nZelensky urged “a swift investigation” into the shooting and said that all the circumstances of the incident were being established.\n\nUkrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said the standoff between the assailant and police negotiators at the supermarket lasted around 40 minutes.\n\n“We tried to persuade him. Realising that there was likely an injured person inside, we offered to bring in tourniquets to stop the bleeding … But he didn’t respond,” Klymenko told reporters at the scene.\n\n“That’s why the order was given to eliminate him,” he added, saying that the gunman had killed one of the people taken hostage.\n\nUkraine, which has been fighting a more than four-year-long war with Russia, has seen sporadic shooting incidents but has a relatively low crime rate.\n\nLast year, a man shot dead two people in a Kyiv suburb in a dispute over the sale of a firearm.",
  "title": "At least 6 killed after gunman opens fire in Ukrainian capital"
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