Kyiv police have reported a 39-year-old man to the police for suspicion. He is accused of shooting in a high-rise building in the Desnyanskyi district of Kyiv.
This was reported today, May 26, by the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Kyiv.
The police reported that the incident occurred on May 18. At that time, law enforcement officers received a report that the owner of the apartment on Gradynska Street fired several shots from a gun and locked himself in the apartment. The investigative and operational group and KORD special forces detained the suspect.
“Investigators established that military law enforcement officers came to the 39-year-old serviceman, who left the military unit without permission in 2025. The man opened the door and, during a conversation in the corridor, fired two shots from a Flaubert revolver at the interlocutors. Fortunately, no one was injured,” the report says.
During a search of the detainee's apartment, a police dog handler and a service dog found a package with a substance resembling cannabis in the room, as well as a gun. The police seized all the physical evidence and sent it for examination.
Suspect detained. Kyiv Police/Telegram
The person involved has now been charged under Part 4 of Article 296 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — hooliganism. The sanction of the article provides for up to seven years of imprisonment, the department informed.
On April 30, police reported the detention of a man in Kyiv — a soldier in the North-West Frontier Province was walking around a supermarket and intimidating customers with a weapon. Law enforcement officers found out that the suspect was drunk.
On April 25, police also reported the arrest of the suspect who opened fire in Bucha. According to investigators, the man was drunk and fired randomly.