#Kyiv #gunman #kills #takes #hostages #shot #dead #Ukraine #policeUkrainian, Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky, supermarket, Holosiivskyi district, Vitali Klitschko, Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko">Kyiv gunman kills 6, takes hostages before being shot dead by Ukraine police
A gunman who killed at least six people in the streets of Kyiv on Saturday before taking hostages and barricading himself in a nearby supermarket has been shot dead by police, Ukrainian officials said.
The head of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, Ihor Klymenko, said in a statement on social media that special tactical police units stormed the store after attempts to contact the gunman with a negotiator failed.
The attacker was killed while resisting arrest, he said.
Speaking to reporters at the scene, Klymenko said that the government had killed four bystanders while on the street, before entering the supermarket and killing a fifth person.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that a sixth victim, a young woman, had died from her injuries in the hospital.
Special forces officers evacuate a hostage at the site of a shooting incident, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
Klymenko said that police negotiators spoke with the attacker for roughly 40 minutes before storming the building.
#Failing #ExUK #Boris #Johnson #criticises #timidity #UkraineBritish, Ukrainian, Kyiv, Ukraine, Boris Johnson, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainians, Russia">‘Failing to help’: Ex-UK PM Boris Johnson criticises ‘timidity’ over Ukraine
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson has hit out at the “delay” and “timidity” in helping Ukraine after travelling through the country unprotected during a 72-hour trip for a documentary.
The former prime minister travelled beyond the capital Kyiv to the so-called kill zone near the city of Zaporizhzhia where he witnessed first-hand the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The 61-year-old said Ukraine can and will win the war, but that “we are risibly failing to live up to our pledges” to the country.
Johnson said: “The Ukrainians are fighting the same war against the same drones that are being sent against civilians by the same alliance of tyrannies.”
“We have spent four years psalming platitudes and telling them that their fight is our fight.”
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“On the basis of what I have seen, we are risibly failing to live up to our pledges, and to give them the help they need.”
#Failing #ExUK #Boris #Johnson #criticises #timidity #UkraineBritish, Ukrainian, Kyiv, Ukraine, Boris Johnson, Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainians, Russia
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson has hit out at the “delay” and “timidity” in…
