At night in Kharkiv, an unknown man opened a fire at the city council, after that he started to shoot at the security guard. Upon arrival of the patrol police at the scene, the attacker reopened fire. Law enforcers managed to eliminate the shooter, but he managed to injure one of them deadly. The deceased Dmytro Kiriyenko was deputy commander of one of the patrol police battalions. More about the deceased – in reactions from DUMKA.
On the web-age of the National Police said it’s said that the team, which included the deceased Dmytro Kiriyenko, was the first to reach the scene of shooting in the building of the city council. Initially, the patrol negotiated with the attacker, but he opened the fire at the police. Kiriyenko received two gunshot wounds that appeared to be incompatible with life. According to the police, the deceased was one of the first who joined the reformed force, to serve and protect. He was a man of principle and sensitive leader, a policeman who was faithfully and selflessly serving his homeland and people.
Police of the Kharkiv region say that the deceased law-enforcer had left a wife and a two-year-old daughter. Dmytro Kiriyenko himself was born in the city of Dobropillya of the Donetsk region, he had three higher education diplomas. Administration and the entire staff of the Police Department of the Kharkiv region expressed their condolences to relatives and friends of Dmytro.
Anton Herashchenko, a member of the board of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and MP from the People’s Front, notes that the identity of the attacker is still unknown. There were two pistols on him: one was a flare gun, remodeled for live rounds, the other – “Baikal“ was remodeled the same way. The motives for shooting are not known yet, but there are several versions. Among them is the response to the actions of the city authorities, mental disorders, and hooligan assault. Currently, a guard is also in a poor condition. He, according to Herashchenko, was shot in the back.
Vyacheslav Abroskin, the first deputy head of the national police, also expressed his condolences to the relatives of the deceased, stressing that Dmytro Kiriyenko had given his life while protecting citizens and the law.
Eugene Zhukov, one of the Donetsk airport defenders and the head of the Patrol Police Department, said that Kiriyenko is the eighth patrolman who had died on duty. Zhukov stressed that the patrol police is not a game, but a large and strong unit with adequate and decent people who serve daily for the protection of citizens.
MP Ihor Mosiychuk is convinced that the murder of any person is a tragedy, and the murder of a policeman, who defended the rule of law, on his duty is a tragedy for the whole society.
Volodymyr Martynenko, the advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs, also expressed his condolences to the relatives, friends, and colleagues of Dmytro, emphasizing that we should appreciate the people we love, since each embrace and every glance may become the last ones.
Igor Solomadin, a teacher, and activist of the Kharkiv EuroMaidan, instead, questioned the means of protection of Ukrainian policemen. After all, if the deceased had put on a bulletproof vest, then the number of questions may multiply. Solomadin also stressed that there were those who decided to joke about the death of a young law-enforcer.
Aleksandr Shulman, a blogger, journalist and ATO participant, reminded that on the front, two of our soldiers had died two days before the death of a Kharkiv policeman. This said in order to tell that the war hasn’t gone away, it continues, and not only on the front.
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