{"id":1392827,"date":"2026-05-13T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/in-kyiv-a-man-opened-fire-in-the-middle-of-the-street-about-nine-shots-were-fired\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:32:08","slug":"in-kyiv-a-man-opened-fire-in-the-middle-of-the-street-about-nine-shots-were-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/in-kyiv-a-man-opened-fire-in-the-middle-of-the-street-about-nine-shots-were-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"In Kyiv, a man opened fire in the middle of the street: about nine shots were fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Kyiv, law enforcement officers have detained a man who opened fire in the Obolonsky district of the capital. The incident occurred on Obolonsky Avenue after a conflict between two men.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/kyiv.npu.gov.ua\/news\/pravookhorontsi-zatrymaly-cholovika-iakyi-vchynyv-strilianynu-v-obolonskomu-raioni-stolytsi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the press service of the Kyiv police.<\/p>\n<p> As reported by the department, law enforcement officers received a report of shooting, after which a special police operation was introduced in the city and a search for the attacker began.<\/p>\n<p> According to the investigation, during an argument, a 38-year-old Kyiv resident pulled out a revolver and fired about nine shots at a 27-year-old man. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c86e32bdcfe5015c7225ad6b10827801778670534-1024x729.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"729\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1392807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c86e32bdcfe5015c7225ad6b10827801778670534-1024x729.webp 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c86e32bdcfe5015c7225ad6b10827801778670534-300x214.webp 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c86e32bdcfe5015c7225ad6b10827801778670534-768x547.webp 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c86e32bdcfe5015c7225ad6b10827801778670534-650x463.webp 650w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c86e32bdcfe5015c7225ad6b10827801778670534.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The attacker then got into a car and drove away from the scene of the crime,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p> Later, patrol officers stopped the attacker&#8217;s car in another district of Kyiv. During the search, law enforcement officers seized a revolver chambered for Flaubert. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0d21d378c30851f80be13b22ae4c54a51778670552-1024x716.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1392810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0d21d378c30851f80be13b22ae4c54a51778670552-1024x716.webp 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0d21d378c30851f80be13b22ae4c54a51778670552-300x210.webp 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0d21d378c30851f80be13b22ae4c54a51778670552-768x537.webp 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0d21d378c30851f80be13b22ae4c54a51778670552-650x454.webp 650w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0d21d378c30851f80be13b22ae4c54a51778670552.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Despite numerous gunshots, the victim did not suffer serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p> The man has now been detained and charged with hooliganism with the use of a weapon, which carries a penalty of up to seven years in prison.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, on Friday, May 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-kyievi-rozshukuiut-vodiia-iakyy-striliav-u-sviatoshynskomu-rayoni\/\">a shooting occurred in the Svyatoshynskyi district of Kyiv<\/a> . Law enforcement officers announced a special police operation to search for the shooter.<\/p>\n<p> As reported, on April 29, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-khmelnytskomu-cholovik-vidkryv-vohon-posered-vulytsi-podrobytsi\/\">patrol officers in Khmelnytskyi detained a man who opened fire in the middle of the street<\/a> . The incident occurred on Instytutska Street during patrol.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kyiv, law enforcement officers have detained a man who opened fire in the Obolonsky district of the capital. The incident occurred on Obolonsky Avenue after a conflict between two men. This was reported by the press service of the Kyiv police. As reported by the department, law enforcement officers received a report of shooting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1392804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76928],"class_list":["post-1392827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-kyiv-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392827","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=1392827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1392804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}