{"id":1451929,"date":"2026-10-12T21:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/in-kropyvnytskyi-a-man-threw-grenades-at-police-officers-and-opened-fire-a-special-operation-is-underway\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:27:07","slug":"in-kropyvnytskyi-a-man-threw-grenades-at-police-officers-and-opened-fire-a-special-operation-is-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/in-kropyvnytskyi-a-man-threw-grenades-at-police-officers-and-opened-fire-a-special-operation-is-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"In Kropyvnytskyi, a man threw grenades at police officers and opened fire: a special operation is underway"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, October 12, explosions and gunshots were heard in the center of Kropyvnytskyi. According to police, an armed man threw grenades at law enforcement officers and then began shooting with a machine gun. A special police operation “Thunder” was declared in the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was reported by<\/a> the National Police of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Local residents heard the first explosions at around 5:53 p.m. According to local media, at least six explosions were heard in the city center. However, no airstrike was declared in Kropyvnytskyi at that time.<\/p>\n

Reports of a man with a machine gun and grenades began to appear on social media. Police arrived at the scene, blocked off the street, and attempted to detain the armed man.<\/p>\n

Police later confirmed that while speaking with law enforcement officers, the man threw grenades at them and then opened fire with a machine gun.<\/p>\n

To detain him, law enforcement officers launched a special operation “Thunder” and involved the necessary police units.<\/p>\n

According to Suspilny<\/a> , at around 8:48 p.m., shots rang out again in the center of Kropyvnytskyi.<\/p>\n

At the time of the report, police were continuing the operation to detain the man. There is no information about the victims yet.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, October 12, explosions and gunshots were heard in the center of Kropyvnytskyi. According to police, an armed man threw grenades at law enforcement officers and then began shooting with a machine gun. A special police operation “Thunder” was declared in the city. This was reported by the National Police of Ukraine. Local residents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":576130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1451929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451929","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}