Patrol officer who fled during the Kyiv terrorist attack tells his version of events
Kyiv • UNN
Police officer Mykhailo Drobnitsky stated that he was seeking cover under the terrorist's targeted fire. The patrol officer is suspected of negligence for fleeing the scene.
Patrol police officer Mykhailo Drobnitskyi, who is accused of official negligence during the terrorist attack in Kyiv on April 18, which killed seven people, told his version of the events of that day, UNN reports.
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According to the law enforcement officer, on April 18, he and a colleague received a call about hooliganism.
We were driving from Lobanovskyi, approached Demiyivska. We heard people screaming, and we heard someone shooting there. We stopped near house 35, approached the security guard, and asked where the shots had come from. Approaching the entrance, we saw a terrible scene. There were seriously wounded people lying there - a man and a woman. A child was kneeling - she had a gunshot wound. I told my partner to stay with the child. At that time, as we were walking to the entrance, I had already radioed the operational duty officer that ambulances were needed, because I understood that there had been shooting and help would be needed. Approaching there, the shooter was not there. There were no armed people. There were people near the entrance. They were asking for help, asking to call an ambulance
According to him, he gave his tablet and keys to the service car to his partner and told her to run for the first aid kit to help people.
At that moment, I again took the radio to report to the duty officer that we had seriously wounded people and needed additional crews, when a person with an automatic rifle suddenly came out of the entrance, bypassed them, pointed the weapon at me, and began to fire aimed shots. I started to retreat to find cover. As I was retreating, I was being fired upon. Having found cover, I took all measures to identify the attacker and neutralize him
Recall
Last Saturday, April 18, Ukraine was shaken by terrible news. In Kyiv, an armed man opened fire on people, killing six people, and another died today in the hospital.
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The shooter was eliminated during his arrest in a Kyiv supermarket, where he had barricaded himself and held hostages. According to the police, the terrorist act in Kyiv on April 18 began due to a domestic conflict.
According to the head of the National Police of Ukraine, Ivan Vyhivskyi, the conflict between neighbors escalated into a shooting. The man first used traumatic weapons, and then returned with firearms and set fire to his apartment.
Law enforcement officers responded to a call about a domestic quarrel, but on the way, they received information that there was a shooter at the scene. When the police approached the child and were about to return to the car for a first aid kit, shots were fired.
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko, reported that the man who started the shooting had a registered carbine - he obtained the permit back in December 2025.
In addition, a video appeared online showing two police officers leaving the scene of the shooting in Kyiv without taking measures to neutralize the attacker.
Klymenko ordered an official investigation, the patrol officers were suspended from duty for leaving the scene of the shooting, and the head of the Patrol Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine, Yevhen Zhukov, resigned.
Two police officers were charged with official negligence during the shooting in Kyiv. Due to their escape, the armed terrorist killed seven civilians.