Director of Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise of Justice Ministry of Ukraine Oleksandr Ruvin has received a gun shot wound in Kyiv in the morning, spokesman of Ukrainian Interior Ministry Oleksandr Shevchenko said.

"Oleksandr Ruvin, Director of Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Expertise of Justice Ministry of Ukraine, received a gun wound of legs being attacked by the offender at Tymoshenko Street in Obolonsky District," he wrote on Facebook account on Thursday morning.

According to Shevchenko, the wounded man is in hospital now.