National Police chief on shooter: his phone contains video in which he calls himself a Russian army general, we understand there were deficiencies
The phone of the man who carried out the mass killings in Kyiv on April 18 contains a video in which he calls himself a Russian army general, pointing to certain deficiencies in the man, National Police chief Ivan Vyhivsky said.
"When we looked at certain files on his phone — he was constantly filming himself, filming himself shooting. Sometimes he would walk around the entrance hall and call himself a general of the Russian army. We understand that he had certain deficiencies," Vyhivsky told journalists in Kyiv on Wednesday.
A shooting took place in the Holosiivsky district of Kyiv on April 18, in which seven people were killed. Police conducted a special operation to detain the attacker, during which he was eliminated.
According to law enforcement, the shooting was carried out by a 58-year-old Moscow-born Ukrainian citizen who had previously lived in Bakhmut in Donetsk region and later in the Holosiivsky district of the capital. According to the Interior Ministry, he used registered weapons.