From the article:
"Ukraine's prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, said four of the dead had been killed in the street and one in the supermarket.
He 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."
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pafagaukurinn22 hr ago
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Born in Moscow, citizen and resident of Ukraine, former member of Ukrainian armed force.
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Mindless-Support-45111 hr ago
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Supporter of Russian invasion, donated money to Russian army, has photos of him in russian military uniform.
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Temporary_Maybe1116 hr ago
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Well they chose their words on the headline
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VegetableCarrot11139 hr ago
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Not sure that ~2014 Donetsk armed forces can be called Ukrainian. But yes joined the army then helped attack Ukraine. He was pretty active member of russian army during first occupation of Bahmut in 2014. Saw him a lot when they came to people on the streets with papers an finger on the trigger, proposing to take the"correct" citizenship while it's not too late. And took people's phones and wallets for indefinite "inspection". Was lucky enough to always get to another side of the street and avoid them. That b****** didnt deserve the quick death that he got.
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Heavy_Secret_2031 day ago
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Could be russian sleeper agent. Terror attack for the successful Ukrainian strikes inside russia today.
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Playful_Alela1 day ago
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Could also just be a crazy spiteful Russian. Not sure it's super appropriate to speculate this early in without much information being public
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Beregonds1 day ago
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Speculation? In my Listnook? Don’t be absurd!
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Playful_Alela1 day ago
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I don't mind speculation in general tbh, and I definitely understand it given Russia blatantly murders civilians with drones. I guess I just feel like in a situation where people were murdered, it feels a little disrespectful to speculate this way before there's been time to investigate. Kinda feels like we're more concerned with the larger conflict, ideologies, etc. than the people who just died
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cherrycocktail209 hr ago
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One Telegram channel has a video of him looking very weird and then attacking someone in a supermarket two years ago. Seems he may just be crazy.
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kakhaganga22 hr ago
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I’m from that area and I think you are right. A crazy spiteful dead Russian that is
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understoryyy13 hr ago
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"Not sure it's super appropriate to speculate", they say after speculating.
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Kooky-Cap224921 hr ago
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I once worked for a crazy spiteful russian once, i ended up having to file a police report it got so bad
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asddde20 hr ago
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Honestly betting higher on this craziness idea, whatever exactly would have led to the decision.
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ForwardGas621219 hr ago
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A sleeper agent that started shooting on the street in broad daylight and killed 5 people. Is that really what you think?
what's more likely is that it was a war veteran that's sick and tired of war
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un-hot18 hr ago
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Or even just PTSD. Drone warfare would f*** me up beyond normalcy. I can't begin to imagine what it's like for UA vets.
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Heavy_Secret_20311 hr ago
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He wasn't war veteran, but civilian. Drone warfare wasn't a thing when he left Bakhmut.
Sleeper agents aren't super humans. He had to be useful in some way and that's it. Russian indoctrination is no joke, there's many examples when ordinary people worked for russia in Ukraine for nothing.
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Man_under_Bridge42018 hr ago
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So you kill innocent people? What a silly notion
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UnoriginalStanger22 hr ago
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> Could be russian sleeper agent.
This isn't how Russia uses it's sleeper agents. It would also not make much sense.
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yourstruly9129 hr ago
+1
Sleeper agents have way better things to do than to kill randos in the street
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Suspicious_Place12701 day ago
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it's about "freeing" the "russians", ofc
every vatnik should make a pledge on video who they believe in and be treated accordingly, sorry, but this ideology is just outright extremism and has no place in a civilized, non-russian world
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word6l1 day ago
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So... A russian terrorist cell
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EstablishmentOk942823 hr ago
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Laziest conclusion. Zero attacks like this but after 4 yrs they would start? Literally nothing to gain.
Every mass shooter in america is al qaeda then right? 😂
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the_pewpew_kid23 hr ago
+61
There was an assassination by two russian agents a couple months back
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ZacksBestPuppy23 hr ago
+15
A Russian shooting Ukrainians, you're right. This can't be terrorism, that would be logical.
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9volts21 hr ago
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Is this how you want to spend the one life you have? As a liar, advocating for a fascist state?
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urdespair8 hr ago
+1
Just recently we had terrorist attack in L'viv killing two policemen. There was also one in Mykolaiv. Once again, traced back to Russians.
While I'm not sure this one was coordinated by them exactly, because, from what I know, he just seems to be a deranged Russia supporter, it's not the first one
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boost_775621 hr ago
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Defending the shooter's actions is a weird hill to die on but ok.
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oops_all_memes1 day ago
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Russia diversifying its terrorist efforts from bombing schools and hospitals to the good ol' terrorist shootings
One has to wonder if huylo cozying up to Afghanistan in the recent years is connected to the story and if more are to follow
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StuckieLromigon16 hr ago
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I live in Kyiv. I'm not sure his origin matters.
It could possibly be just emotional breakdown. There're a lot of people here on different levels of burning out and being traumatized. We all try our best to continue living fighting very dark thoughts, but sometimes they win.
Hatred begets hatred and it results of people being radicalized over social problems. I knew couple men willing to kill draft service personnel if they end up being catched.
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grumpy_svaln15 hr ago
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Pair of parents with a kid, a typical draft service personnel nowadays.
Are you also fighting with dark thoughts about shooting kids? Better seek some psychiatric help immediately then, don’t fight this fight alone.
Two “I live in Kyiv” comments in the thread, both with the same message about shooter’s origin doesn’t matter (which it might not, but somehow convincing foreigners that we don’t have anything against his place of origin is not my first reaction to the situation) and immediate focus shift to infamous draft service personnel problem.
I live in Kyiv btw.
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Altruistic-Owl607513 hr ago
+5
yeah, Russian troll
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StuckieLromigon10 hr ago
Well then it could be just other form of meltdown of ours not conscription related.
I'm mostly fighting dark thoughts about shooting myself.
Якщо ти тоже живеш тут, ти знаєш як багато людей бояться ТЦК. Я особисто дуже боюсь, хоч у нас не так все плохо як в інших містах.
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Bu11ett00th21 hr ago
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Ukrainian here.
The fact that he's born in Moscow matters little to many people here, and it feels like the media (our own media) is pushing this fact to draw attention from another fact:
Police were very, very slow to react to a mass shooter walking around freely, guns blazing. That same police though is very active in catching draft dodgers, with patrols all over the place.
Now I'm not raising the discussion of drafting. It's a hard situation the country is in, and most people who aren't in the army by now don't want to be there. But the fact that the very same police - usually accompanied by the military no less - was nowhere to be found during a one-man terror attack is kinda disgusting.
EDIT: I want to add that when I say police I mean the regular police patrols that are all over the city. Nothing against the special forces that arrived on the scene to deal with the terrorist.
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Mindless-Support-45111 hr ago
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Ukrainian here.
You switched topics and instead of discussing this particular even shifted it to discussing draft problems.
You didn't mention that the guy was russian army supporter who donated money to russian army and posed in russian uniform - this is everywhere in ukrainian media. This makes me doubt that you are even Ukrainian.
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Bu11ett00th8 hr ago
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I've noticed that people in the comments only discussed the guy's origins and connections to the russian army, so I pointed towards the thing that wasn't bring discussed here, unlike in the Ukrainian media and among people.
This connects directly to the issue of drafting, which, as I sad above, is a complex issue, but it plays negatively into many people's perception of police given their behavior during this attack.
Your doubting my citizenship doesn't change any of this.
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AnotherRamone21 hr ago
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Drop the "most people" claim & you’re presenting your own view as consensus. Your take on the police is also misleading: you’re speculating about a response time you don’t know and using it to imply a broader failure, then linking it to draft enforcement as if that proves your point. That's a text book manipulation.
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Bu11ett00th21 hr ago
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I did edit out the 'most' part. It's an observation based on my own circle of communication - which involves people in the military - as well as reactions I've witnessed in social media. But you're right, I don't have the statistics to judge.
Regardless of opinion however, the origins and motives of the shooter don't matter in the context of police reaction. Whether he was a Kremlin agent or just a man gone mad, he shot up people in broad daylight and had no police intervene for a good while.
This lack of intervention doesn't sit well with people who know to be wary of the same police who constantly patrol both the streets and the yards in groups, ambushing lone men for drafting.
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h34dyr0kz20 hr ago
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How long did the attack go on before police got there?
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Bu11ett00th19 hr ago
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From what I know they didn't take long to get there, but took a very long time to act.
5:08 pm is the time of the first report of the mass shooter I saw, at which point the attack must have gone for some time already.
6:13 pm is when he was neutralized.
Granted there was a hostage situation in a supermarket, and these are I imagine very complex.
But before the supoermarket he walked the street shooting bypassers.
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ghostexshell11 hr ago
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The article mentions that police tried to negotiate with the attacker for 40 minutes because of the hostage situation in the supermarket.
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Bu11ett00th8 hr ago
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This is true. But before the supermarket encounter he was walking the streets freely, with two policemen even fleeing upon hearing gunshots.
From what I understand, KORD special forces were the ones doing the negotiation. My criticism is aimed at regular lolice patrols.
Just to clarify, I'm not trying to generalize our police force. But this particular incident didn't do their general image any favors.
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DoruProgramatoru1 day ago
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ah yes, "denaizifcation" and "russian values"
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EstablishmentOk942823 hr ago
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So lazy to blame the russians. Like every lunatic mass shooter in america is a foreign terrorist
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H4X4NX23 hr ago
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Even lazier to not even read what you're commenting on
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Golemiot_mufluz22 hr ago
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He was ukranian born in moskow but lived in ukraine and was citizen of ukraine
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weltbeltjoe1123 hr ago
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The reflexive russian d*** eating is bizarre.
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Deep-Friendship318123 hr ago
+2
You're right.
Sure, Russia is 4 years into a quagmire 3 day special military operation attacking Ukraine, and a Russian from the capital of Russia went to the capital of Ukraine and opened fire on innocent civilians.
Certainly just a random coincidence. Definitely not related to anything.
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noodlekhan22 hr ago
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You should go volunteer to fight for Russia, something even Russians aren't doing.
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Ugliest_weenie19 hr ago
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Russia is responsible.
If they didn't organize this directly, which is doubtful, then they absolutely are to blame for the propaganda and misinformation.
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Temporary_Maybe1116 hr ago
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This was Ukrainian ex militaryv
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WTFThisIsntAWii19 hr ago
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Crustaceous?
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Thick-Phrase46921 day ago
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He 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.
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Township_Roller10 hr ago
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Condolences to the victims. russia should be dismantled.
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Kind_Commission_42712 hr ago
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At least six people were killed, and 14 others injured on Saturday, 18 April 2026, after a gunman opened fire on the streets and took hostages in a supermarket in Kyiv. The incident occurred in the southern Holosiivskyi district of the Ukrainian capital.
The attacker began firing on civilians in the street before barricading himself inside a nearby Velmart supermarket. Witnesses reported he shot people at point-blank range.
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