Kyiv street blocked after shooting amid unconfirmed reports of Security Service clash
Traffic was blocked on Yuriia Shumskoho Street in Kyiv following reports of shooting and injuries (Photo: Київ Info / Telegram)
Kyiv police blocked traffic in both directions on Yuriia Shumskoho Street amid reports on social media of a shooting in the city’s Dniprovskyi district on Sept. 2.
Updated at 11:30 a.m. Sources for Ukrainska Pravda confirmed that representatives of Ukraine's Defense Intelligence and Security Service of Ukraine were involved in the shooting in Kyiv and that the incident was linked to the disappearance of Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander for combat operations of the Russian Volunteer Corps unit within Ukraine's Defense Intelligence.
According to Ukrainska Pravda, the standoff was continuing as of Wednesday morning. Sources reported that three Defense Intelligence representatives were wounded. Police closed Shumskoho Street to vehicles and pedestrians.
The Kyiv City State Administration reported that buses were operating on modified routes because of the street closure:
No. 87 toward Mytropolyta Andreia Sheptytskoho Street: via Berezniakivska Street and Pavla Tychyny Avenue, then along its regular route; toward Osokorky metro station: via Pavla Tychyny Avenue and Dniprovska Embankment.
No. 95: via Berezniakivska Street and Pavla Tychyny Avenue, then along its regular route.
No. 108: via Dniprovska Embankment.
Several Kyiv Telegram channels reported a shooting on Shumskoho Street overnight and on the morning of Sept. 2. According to unconfirmed reports, security service personnel were among those involved in the incident. Local residents reported that people were wounded and detained.
TSN.ua reported that the shooting in the Berezniaky neighborhood falls under the jurisdiction of the security services, citing a police comment to journalists.
On the morning of Sept. 2, the Security Service of Ukraine and Ukraine's Defense Intelligence said they had thwarted an assassination attempt by Russia's Federal Security Service against one of the leaders of a Russian opposition movement who had arrived in Kyiv for Independence Day.
Earlier, it emerged that Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander for combat operations of the Russian Volunteer Corps, had been abducted in Kyiv. The unit appealed to Ukraine's Defense Intelligence, the Security Service of Ukraine and the State Bureau of Investigation.
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