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News & Current Events Apr 18, 2026 at 5:21 PM

Ukraine: At least six dead in Kyiv as gunman opens fire

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Ukraine: At least six dead in Kyiv as gunman opens fire
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Ukraine: At least six dead in Kyiv as gunman opens fire
The attacker, who took hostages inside a supermarket, was killed after a shoot-out with police, officials say.
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reddit_ending_soon Apr 18, 2026 +327
"Ukraine's prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, 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." How did he get in Ukraine? Or was he always there?
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ooheia Apr 18, 2026 +189
CNN article says he was born in Moscow and this article says he was living locally. Pretty ambiguous but seems to suggest that he was living in Ukraine for a considerable amount of time, I can't imagine it being easy for a Russian to emigrate to Ukraine right now. We'll just have to wait for the following investigation. Personally I'm curious to see if this guy was encouraged by Russian state actors to commit this atrocity.
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Weightmonster Apr 18, 2026 +72
Before the war there were a lot of Russians living in Kyiv.
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Diplomatic-Immunityi Apr 19, 2026 -36
There still are. Zelensky’s mother tongue is Russian.
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CokeJoke1 Apr 19, 2026 +41
Lol half the Ukrainian population spoke Russian language as their mother tongue pre-war and a lot of them didn’t have any Russian ancestry and never set foot to Russia. It’s what decades of forced cultural imperialism did to the population. Someone speaking Russian as their mother tongue does not mean they are Russian. Also, Zelensky is a Ukrainian Jew.
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dimizon Apr 19, 2026 -24
lol Russian ancestry, what are you talking about its the same genetic gene pool. Besides Ukraine as a country didn't technically exist till 1992, so they were always "russian/ukrainan". It's like comparing two indigenous aboriginal tribes and saying we are special we are different because we leave closer to the sea and wear turtle hats, we not really related to those other tribes....
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instasquid Apr 19, 2026 +25
Ukrainians speak Russian the same way the Irish speak English.  Go ahead and tell a Cork lad that it makes him English.
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Diplomatic-Immunityi Apr 19, 2026 +4
Weren’t Ukraines there first? Russians came from Ukraine? Kievan Rus?
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Biopain Apr 19, 2026 +1
At the times of kievan Russ there were no such thing as Ukrainians.
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Lirael_Gold Apr 18, 2026 +43
A significant number of Ukranians have family in Russia, or are descended from Russian workers that moved to Ukraine under the USSR. There's a reason why until 2014-ish the road signs in most of Ukraine were in Ukrainian *and* Russian Before the USSR fell, everyone was broadly speaking "Soviet" by citizenship, with nationality referring to ethnic groups. After 1992*, that "Soviet" citizenship was carved up and replaced by "idk you guys live here now so you're a citizen of this new state, have fun". The fact that hundreds of thousands of ethnic Russians moved to east Ukraine during the Soviet era to work in the Donbass is why the conflict ignited in 2014, and is the Casus Belli that Russia used to support the rebels and then expand the war with a full ground invasion. >Any person who was a permanent resident of Ukraine and held no other citizenship automatically became Ukrainian citizens on 13 November 1991. Individuals who were born in the country, or whose parent or grandparent was born in Ukraine, were also eligible to acquire citizenship edit: 1991*, the Ukranian SSR started revamping citizenship law as the broader USSR crumbled, but yes, this guy is most likely a russian citizen of Ukraine.
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Mewhomewhy Apr 18, 2026 +11
Yes Russia has colonised and oppressed Ukraine for a long time.
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Lirael_Gold Apr 18, 2026 -15
Not really. Ask a Pole what they think about the UPA.
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Sumiklab Apr 18, 2026 +9
You can be both the oppressor and the oppressed in different contexts. Might be shocking for remedials like yourself.
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Mewhomewhy Apr 19, 2026 +1
Changes nothing dumdum.
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Dexterus Apr 18, 2026 +7
He was a Ukrainian soldier apparently. Born in Moscow. Went AWOL from unit.
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fcking_schmuck Apr 18, 2026 +9
Where did you get this info? Cant find it.
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bb_kelly77 Apr 18, 2026 +1
He lives there, he was in Kyiv because his home in Donetsk has been invaded
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BeginningPlastic3747 Apr 18, 2026 +41
damn, a mass shooting in a city that's already getting bombed on a regular basis... Ukraine cannot catch a break.
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Dusty_Bunny81 Apr 18, 2026 +7
what was the motive for the attack?
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Dusty_Bunny81 Apr 18, 2026 +6
if there was one
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Necessary_Apple_5567 Apr 19, 2026 +1
It seems like mental breakdown or something. He had criminal records for aggressive behaviour.
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Gutternips Apr 19, 2026 -2
He was originally from Moscow. Probably recruited by the Russian security services or read too much propaganda.
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bb_kelly77 Apr 18, 2026 -25
He was ex-Ukrainian Military and he lived in Donetsk, most likely a psychotic break from all the stress
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donkeyrocket Apr 18, 2026 +7
Do you have a source for him being ex-Ukrainian military? Nothing I've seen from reputable sources hint at that amount of background or even a whiff of motive. Closest being NYTimes [interviewing a neighbor who said he lived there for about a decade.](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/world/europe/kyiv-ukraine-mass-shooting-hostages.html)
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bb_kelly77 Apr 18, 2026 -10
I've seen this story like 6 times in as many minutes and they all mention him being ex-Ukrainian military, I find it likely that something said by like 20 different people is true
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rift_in_the_warp Apr 19, 2026 +10
wildly naive take in the age of botnets and AI propaganda.
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Dusty_Bunny81 Apr 18, 2026
oh ok
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TemperateStone Apr 18, 2026 +12
I thought it'd be some PTSD case but it turns out it's just another Russian.
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bb_kelly77 Apr 18, 2026 -21
He's likely not Russian, he's lived in Donetsk and was ex-Ukrainian Military
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fcking_schmuck Apr 18, 2026 +10
Its said he lived in occupied part of Donetsk region, part controlled after 2014 invasion.
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bb_kelly77 Apr 18, 2026 -12
Yeah, and we don't know yet how long he's been in Kyiv and how long he was in Donetsk... plus even if he's Russian he might still have been pro-Ukraine
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TemperateStone Apr 19, 2026 +2
Read the article before you comment.
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bb_kelly77 Apr 19, 2026 +2
I did, on a different post
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