{"id":5014,"date":"2026-04-18T16:51:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=5014"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:51:51","slug":"several-killed-in-kyiv-shooting-gunman-also-dead-interior-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=5014","title":{"rendered":"Several killed in Kyiv shooting, gunman also dead, interior ministry says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>BREAKING<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>A gunman has opened fire in Ukraine\u2019s capital, Kyiv, shooting several people dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>According to Ukrainian authorities, at least five people have been killed in the shooting on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The police have killed the suspect at a supermarket in the Holosiivskyi district in the capital, Ihor Klymenko, the head of Ukraine\u2019s interior ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>After attempts to make contact with a negotiator failed, special forces entered the store where the gunman took people hostage and shot at police officers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later said that five people have been killed in the shooting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cWe expect a swift investigation. Investigators of the National Police and the Security Service of Ukraine are working. I have instructed the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Head of the National Police of Ukraine to make all verified information in this case available to the public\u201d, Zelenskyy wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kyiv\u2019s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said that 15 people were injured in the shooting, including a child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#killed #Kyiv #shooting #gunman #dead #interior #ministry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING A gunman has opened fire in Ukraine\u2019s capital, Kyiv, shooting several people dead. According to Ukrainian authorities, at least five people have been killed in the shooting on Saturday. The police have killed the suspect at a supermarket in the Holosiivskyi district in the capital, Ihor Klymenko, the head of Ukraine\u2019s interior ministry said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1564,4659,5196,1586,889,3821,1562,1669,183,3616],"class_list":{"0":"post-5014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-dead","9":"tag-gunman","10":"tag-interior","11":"tag-killed","12":"tag-kyiv","13":"tag-ministry","14":"tag-sensitive","15":"tag-shooting","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}