Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasyl Hrytsak has confirmed information about the dead and wounded as a result of shooting in the center of Kyiv. Investigative and operational groups of the National Police of Ukraine and the SBU are working at the scene.

"The preliminary data that I've got suppose that the SBU didn't carry out special operations. There are indeed dead and wounded people near the Premier Palace. Investigative teams of the National Police and the SBU are currently working there," Hrytsak told journalists in Kyiv on Thursday.