Police launch operation to apprehend armed suspect after gunfire in Kyiv

Gunfire erupted in Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi district on September 3, prompting police to launch a special operation to apprehend an armed suspect. One person was injured and receiving medical treatment. The incident followed a previous exchange of gunfire between officers from Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) and the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) in Kyiv's Dniprovskyi district the previous day.

The SBU claimed its officers were carrying out "urgent investigative actions" as part of a probe into a terrorist attack allegedly organized by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). During the search, "a group of individuals" attacked SBU officers, attempting to obstruct the investigation. The operation was linked to the detention of Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander of the Ukrainian unit known as the Russian Volunteer Corps.

Kaplunov was suspected of working for the FSB and plotting to assassinate a leader of the Russian opposition movement, who was expected to visit Kyiv. Meduza reports that the story was written by a journalist and translated using an AI model that adheres to strict editorial standards.