The Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) will investigate a shootout between law-enforcement officers in the village of Kniazhychi in the Kyiv region that killed five employees of various Ukrainian law-enforcement agencies.

"The PGO will investigate this tragedy, possess details about the case and appraise the role of law-enforcement agencies involved," Director of the communications department of the Interior Ministry Artem Shevchenko said at a media briefing on Sunday afternoon in Kyiv.