{"id":1349857,"date":"2026-01-27T16:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/killer-waited-for-the-police-in-an-ambush-details-of-the-deaths-of-police-officers-in-cherkasy-region\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:09:22","slug":"killer-waited-for-the-police-in-an-ambush-details-of-the-deaths-of-police-officers-in-cherkasy-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/killer-waited-for-the-police-in-an-ambush-details-of-the-deaths-of-police-officers-in-cherkasy-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer waited for the police in an ambush: details of the deaths of police officers in Cherkasy region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Cherkasy region, four police officers were killed during an operation to detain a suspect in an assassination attempt on a local council member.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-regions\/4084870-na-cerkasini-policejski-zaginuli-pid-cas-zatrimanna-colovika-akogo-pidozruvali-u-zamahah-na-deputata.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">information<\/a> provided to Ukrinform by an informed source, the incident occurred in Korsun-Shevchenkivske. The local deputy and head of a public organization, young and active, has repeatedly become the target of attacks &#8211; according to preliminary data, he has already been the target of two premeditated attempts. He himself appealed to law enforcement agencies with a request to investigate these cases.<\/p>\n<p>The police officers identified the suspect and received a warrant for his arrest. When the operational-investigative group arrived at the scene, they were ambushed: after getting out of the car, the attacker opened fire with an automatic weapon.<\/p>\n<p>All the bullet wounds were inflicted in the neck area, as the police officers were wearing helmets and bulletproof vests.<\/p>\n<p>Four police officers were killed, one more was wounded. The killer was eliminated by special forces. An investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, the head of the National Police, Ivan Vyhivskyi, informed that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/pry-zatrymanni-na-cherkashchyni-pidozriuvanyy-u-vbyvstvi-zastrelyv-chotyrokh-politsiiantiv\/\">four police officers died in the Cherkasy region during the detention of a murder suspect.<\/a> Another law enforcement officer was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Cherkasy region, four police officers were killed during an operation to detain a suspect in an assassination attempt on a local council member. According to information provided to Ukrinform by an informed source, the incident occurred in Korsun-Shevchenkivske. The local deputy and head of a public organization, young and active, has repeatedly become the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1287616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76885,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1349857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350075,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349857\/revisions\/1350075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1287616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}