00:00Police in Ukraine killed a man who opened fire in Kyiv on Saturday
00:05before barricading himself in a supermarket and refusing to negotiate.
00:09Video from the scene showed emergency crews loading at least one body into an ambulance.
00:15Officials say at least six people were killed.
00:19President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking in his nightly video address,
00:23said the shooting happened in the Holosievsky district,
00:26injuring 14 people, including a 12-year-old boy.
00:31Unofficial telegram channels quoted witnesses as saying the suspect had moved down a street
00:35and shot and killed people at point-blank range without warning before entering the supermarket.
00:44Ukraine's interior minister, Ihor Klemenko, told reporters at the scene
00:48that officers had tried without success to negotiate with the suspect for 40 minutes.
00:53He said the man had owned a registered weapon and secured a medical certificate to use it.
00:59Special forces stormed the store and shot him, Klemenko said.
01:03Ukraine's security service said the shooting was being investigated as a terrorist act.
01:08The shooter has been identified as a 58-year-old native of Moscow, according to officials.
01:14Zelensky said the suspect had a criminal record and had set fire to the apartment
01:18where he was thought to have lived before going into the street with the gun.
01:23Shootings like this are extremely rare in the country.
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