Police officers guard the premises of a supermarket in the Holosiivskyi district where a shooter took hostages, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 18, 2026. On the afternoon of April 18, the assailant opened fire on civilians in the Holosiivskyi district before seizing hostages inside the store. Negotiators attempted contact before KORD officers stormed the premises and neutralized the offender. According to the Prosecutor General痴 Office, the attacker was a 58-year-old Moscow-born man. The Interior Ministry reported that he possessed a legally registered carbine and shot four people on the street before killing a fifth hostage inside the supermarket. A sixth victim, a woman around 30 years old, later died in the hospital. Photo by Yevhen Kotenko/Ukrinform/ABACAPRESS.COM
