The head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, Igor Klymenko, ordered an official investigation into the actions of police officers during the terrorist attack in Kiev, which killed six people.
Shortly after the shooting in the Golosyevsky district of Kiev, a video of the actions of two police officers during the incident spread on social media. In the footage filmed by eyewitnesses, the patrol members were talking about something with the child, but upon hearing the sounds of gunfire, they fled and left the boy in the street. The video ends with the child also starting to run away, and a wounded man falling next to him.
“The slogan ‘To Serve and Protect’ is not just a slogan. It must be supported by appropriate professional measures. Especially in critical moments, when people’s lives depend on it,” Klimenko added.
The head of the Ukrainian National Police, Ivan Vyhovsky, to whom the Minister entrusted the investigation, I mentionedThe internal audit has already begun. The police officers who appeared in the video were suspended during the investigation.
In Kiev on the evening of April 18, a criminal opened fire on passers-by and then barricaded himself in a store. Six people were killed and 15 others were injured. Among the wounded was a 12-year-old child. The attacker was killed.
Ukrainian authorities are investigating the incident as a terrorist attack. According to their statement, the shooting was opened by “a 58-year-old Moscow citizen.” According to media reports, he has been identified as Dmitry Vasilievich Vasilchenkov, born in Moscow on April 21, 1968. Before moving to Kiev, he lived in Bakhmut, Donetsk region. Vasilchenkov had Ukrainian citizenship.