The scene of the shooting. Photo: Ukrinform

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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said eight people injured in the shooting in the Holosiivskyi district on 18 April are currently being treated in the capital’s hospitals.

Source: Klitschko on social media

Quote: “Currently, eight people injured yesterday by a shooter in the Holosiivskyi district remain in the capital’s hospitals. Among them is one child in a stable condition of moderate severity. Among the adults, one person is in a severe condition, three are in a serious condition and three are in a moderate condition.”

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Details: Klitschko said all of them are receiving the necessary medical assistance.

Previously:

• Investigators are treating the killing of civilians in Kyiv as a terrorist attack that resulted in fatalities.

• Klitschko reported that the death toll from the shooting in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district had risen to six, while nine injured people were hospitalised and six others received assistance at the scene, including a four-month-old baby.

• Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko has ordered an internal investigation into the actions of police officers during the terrorist attack.

Background:

• On 18 April, a man opened fire in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district, killing and injuring people. Police conducted a special operation to detain the attacker.

• The man who carried out the fatal shooting was later killed during the operation to arrest him.

• According to Ukrainska Pravda sources, his name was Dmytro Vasylchenkov and he was born on 21 April 1968 in Moscow. He held Ukrainian citizenship and had previously lived in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, before moving to Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district.

• Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko confirmed that the shooter was a 58-year-old Moscow-born man.

• Klymenko said the shooter used a registered weapon during the attack.

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