A mass shooting in Kyiv killed six people and injured at least 14 others, marking Ukraine's deadliest such attack since the war with Russia began. The 58-year-old gunman, a Moscow native living in Kyiv, first killed four people on the street before barricading himself in a supermarket where he fatally shot another hostage. Ukrainian police stormed the supermarket after failed negotiations and killed the attacker.

Officials identified the gunman as a former resident of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, where a low-intensity conflict with Russia has simmered for 12 years. The attack has raised alarms about increased gun violence in Ukraine, where hundreds of thousands have received firearms training during the war. Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko is investigating the incident as a terrorist act, though no motive has been determined.

The shooting bears similarities to U.S.-style mass shootings rather than the politically motivated attacks that have characterized violence in Ukraine during the war. Experts warn that widespread firearm access and collective trauma from years of conflict create conditions for more such incidents. President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the gunman had legally registered weapons and set fire to his apartment before beginning his deadly rampage through the city.