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2026 Kyiv Shooting: The Demiivka Attack and Its Aftermath
On 18 April 2026, a mass shooting in Kyiv's Demiivka neighborhood killed eight people and injured thirteen others before police stormed a supermarket to end the siege. The perpetrator, a 57-year-old Russian-born Ukrainian citizen, was killed in the police raid, and the attack is being investigated as a terrorist act.