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Kyiv mass shooting probed for Russian direction
A gunman killed six people and wounded at least 14 in Kyiv on Saturday before police shot him dead, in what Ukrainian investigators are now examining as a possible Russian-directed terrorist attack. The 58-year-old shooter — a Ukrainian citizen born in Moscow — opened fire on passersby, then barricaded himself in a supermarket and took hostages before being killed. The attack hit the Holosiivskyi district of the capital.
