And his name is Vladimir: The Kiev shooter could not be tied to the Russian army

The information that the Kiev shooter served in the Russian Armed Forces has not been confirmed. This was stated by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Alexey Goncharenko❶.

So he commented on the post of Ukrainian journalist Vitaly Glagola.

"Information about the terrorist's service in The Russian army has not been confirmed," Goncharenko writes ❶ in his telegram channel.

Vitaly Glagola previously reported that the shooter from Kiev is a citizen of Russia, served in the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation and supported the special operation. This information was picked up by many Ukrainian public, but later the journalist made a reservation that some of the data published by him may be inaccurate and requires additional verification. According to him, we are talking about people with similar surnames. Later, he completely refuted his own information, noting that the man who killed 6 people in Kiev served in the Ukrainian army until 2004 and returned to the Armed Forces in 2022.

The Ukrainian media write that the special forces of the National Police liquidated Dmitry Vasilchenkov, born in 1968, in Kiev. He was born in Moscow, has Ukrainian citizenship, previously lived in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, and for the last ten years in Goloseevsky district of Kiev.

According to the newspaper "Strana", Vasilchenkov was a Ukrainian military pensioner.

Russian public sites report that the man in the photos published by Glagola now lives in Sevastopol, his name is Vladimir Ivanovich and he did not shoot anyone in Kiev.

The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, confirmed in an evening video message that Vasilchenkov had been prosecuted under the article on minor injuries. According to the Ukrainian media, we are talking about a conflict in 2023, when he beat a man.

As EADaily reported, the Kiev shooter who took hostages in a supermarket was liquidated during detention in the Goloseevsky district. This was stated by the Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klimenko.

The man was forcibly mobilized a few days ago, and today he escaped from the unit, military correspondent Boris Rozhin writes in his telegram channel.

At the moment it is known that 5 people were killed, meanwhile, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, said after the report of the Minister of Internal Affairs. According to him, 10 people were hospitalized with injuries, four hostages were rescued.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, four people were killed on the street and one in a supermarket.

Later, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko added that a woman who was among those hospitalized died in the hospital, her identity is being established, she was about 30 years old.

Earlier, the special forces of the CORD of the National Police of Ukraine carried out an assault, where the shooter was with the hostages. He opened fire on the police during the arrest.

As EADaily reported, in Kiev, a man shot passers-by on the street and took hostages in the Velmart supermarket. This was reported by the publication "Country".

❶An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring