A Russian soldier killed four people, including three civilians, in a shooting rampage in the village of Khmelnytske near Sevastopol in annexed Crimea. The gunman first opened fire on fellow servicemen, killing one and wounding another, before turning his weapon on residents. He then killed three civilians — two men aged 71 and 59, and a 64-year-old woman — and injured three other people in the attack.
The assailant has been detained. Regional Telegram channels identified the suspect as a 21-year-old man from the Saratov region. Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev urged residents to remain calm and rely only on official information.
The incident comes as the Crimean peninsula, which Russia has controlled since 2014, has been the target of Ukrainian retaliatory attacks for weeks following Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.