In the Golosyevsky district of Kiev, on the evening of April 18, a criminal shot bystanders and then barricaded himself in a store. Six people were killed and ten injured. The shooter was killed by Special Forces soldiers who stormed the supermarket. Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said the shooting was opened by “a 58-year-old Moscow citizen.” What else does he know about what happened?
On the afternoon of April 18, in the Golosyevsky district of Kiev, a man shot people in the street. He then ran to a Walmart supermarket and took hostages there, Ukrainian Prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko said at a news conference.
The police cordoned off the supermarket building and the streets surrounding it. Special forces carried out an attack during which the shooter was killed.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, citing a report by Interior Minister Igor Klimenko, said five people were killed and 10 others were injured. According to Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko, a supermarket security guard was among the dead, and a child was among the wounded. RBC-Ukraine, referring to Telegram channels, wrote that one of the dead was a girl.
It was initially reported that the shooter was carrying a machine gun. However, the head of the Ministry of Interior, at a joint press conference with the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko, said that the shooting was carried out from a carbine. “He fired single shots at close range, and people had little chance. He got close and fired. I fired single shots, because it’s a single-shot carbine,” Klimenko said.
The head of the Ministry of Interior said that the weapon was officially registered. “In December 2025, he applied to the licensing authorities to be shot. He brought a medical certificate. The investigation will check who submitted it,” Klimenko said.
According to the Minister of Interior, the shooter killed four people in the street and one in the supermarket. After briefing the Prosecutor General and the head of the Interior Ministry, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced that the death toll had risen to six – one of the wounded died in hospital.
Klimenko said that before the attack began, they tried to negotiate with the shooter for “40 minutes.” But according to what the Minister of the Interior said, he “did not react at all, and even killed another hostage.” He writes “RBC-Ukraine”.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, in turn, said that the shooting in the Golosyevsky district “was opened by a 58-year-old Moscow citizen,” without mentioning his name. According to media reports, Including “Ukrainian Pravda”The shooter was identified as Dmitry Vasilievich Vasilchenkov, born on April 21, 1968 in Moscow, and living in the Golosyevsky district of Kiev. Before shooting passers-by, he set fire to his apartment. Before moving to Kyiv (When this was not specified it happened – approx. “Jellyfish”) He lived in Bakhmut, Donetsk region. Vasilchenkov had Ukrainian citizenship.
Astra, after studying the combined databases, I found outThat the person with such data lived in Ryazan for at least several years, and in 2023 had a valid account in the Russian Alfa Bank, and in 2022 – in Sberbank. In 2016, he crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border three times, once by car and twice by train. Also, as of 2023, it is included in the database of the Moscow Ministry of Health.
Ukrainian Country Politics channel reported on Telegram that Vasilchenkov was tried under the article of minor bodily injury – in 2023 he hit a man. However, in 2024, the case was closed – the parties reached an agreement, and the victim dropped his claims.
Vasilchenkov, according to this telegram channel, was also suing the Pension Fund of Ukraine. Based on the materials of the case, he was a former military man and received a Ukrainian military pension. Ukrainian journalist Vitaly Glagula stated for the first time that Vasilchenkov is a former lieutenant colonel in the Russian army. He writes However, UNIAN subsequently reported that the information had been clarified and that there was a possible error due to a coincidence of surname.