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Two Ukrainian police officers flee shooting scene, leaving victims unprotected — newspaper

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The article reports that two police officers allegedly fled the scene of a shooting in Kiev on April 18, leaving civilians unprotected, according to a report from Zerkalo Nedeli. Following the incident, Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klimenko announced an official investigation into the officers' actions. The article concludes by detailing the shooting, which involved an armed perpetrator who was neutralized by special forces, resulting in multiple injuries and one fatality.

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Propaganda Score
confidence: 90%
Minor concerns. Some persuasive language detected, but largely factual.

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Loaded Language 80% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Selective Omission 70% confidence
Deliberately leaving out important context or facts that would change interpretation.

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9 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Two police officers got scared and fled the scene of a shooting in Kiev on April 18, leaving civilians, including a child, without protection, the newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli reported.”
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The evidence provided only contains general links to Zerkalo Nedeli and Wikipedia entries about Kyiv/Kiev. There is no direct, corroborating evidence from multiple independent sources confirming the specific claim that 'two police officers got scared and fled the scene of a shooting in Kiev on April 18, leaving civilians, including a child, without protection' was reported by Zerkalo Nedeli. The claim relies solely on the initial report mentioned.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both banks of the Dnieper River. As of January 2022, the population of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The word Rus' or Rus referred initially to a group of Scandinavian Vikings, also known as Varangians, who founded the medieval state of Kievan Rus' in Eastern Europe in the 10th century. The term grad…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Rus',_Russia_and_Ruth…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (abbr. NaUKMA, Ukrainian: Національний університет «Києво-Могилянська академія», НаУКМА, romanized: Natsionalnyi universytet «Kyievo-Mohylianska akademi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_University_of_Kyiv-Mo…
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“Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klimenko stated that the national police of Ukraine will conduct an official investigation.”
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The web search results confirm that Igor Klymenko is the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and that he has made statements regarding the police force. However, none of the provided evidence snippets contain the specific statement that he 'stated that the national police of Ukraine would conduct an official investigation.' This specific quote cannot be verified with the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian census identified that there were more than 5,864,000 Ukrainians and Ukrainian citizens living in Russia in 2015, representing over 4.01% of the total population of the Russian Federation…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainians_in_Russia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ihor Olehovych Markov (Ukrainian: Ігор Олегович Марков; Russian: Игорь Олегович Марков, romanized: Igor Olegovich Markov; born on 18 January 1973) is a former pro-Russian Ukrainian entrepreneur, found…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Markov
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is the order of battle for the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present). It should not be considered complete, up-to-date, nor fully accurate, being based on open-source press reporting. An updated ord…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022–pres…
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“I have instructed the head of the National Police of Ukraine, Ivan Vygovsky, to conduct an official investigation into the actions of police officers during the terrorist attack in Kiev and to provide all information to the State Bureau of Investigation," Klimenko wrote on his Telegram channel.”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists only of general web search results related to 'Igor (album)' or 'Igor (character)' and does not contain any information regarding Igor Klimenko instructing Ivan Vygovsky to conduct an investigation. Therefore, the claim cannot be verified.
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web search NEUTRAL — Thematically, Igor follows a narrative of a love triangle between the titular character and his male love interest. The album employs the "Igor" literary archetype to explore themes associated with lo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_(album)
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web search NEUTRAL — IGOR (pronounced EEE-GORE), released on May 17, 2019, is Tyler, the Creator’s sixth studio album. The announcement of the album came after some speculations the week before, followed by the...
https://genius.com/albums/Tyler-the-creator/Igor
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web search NEUTRAL — Igor is the main protagonist of Igor (2019), an album by Tyler, the Creator. The album follows a narrative in which Tyler falls in love with a closeted boy who was his best friend, which is symbolic f…
https://tylerthecreator.fandom.com/wiki/Igor_(character)
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“Vygovsky reported that the police officers have been suspended from duty for the duration of the investigation, according to the Telegram channel of the National Police.”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists only of general web search results related to 'Ivan' or 'Ivan the Terrible' and does not contain any information regarding Ivan Vygovsky suspending police officers. Therefore, the claim cannot be verified.
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web search NEUTRAL — Ivan IV was the eldest son of Vasili III by his second wife Elena Glinskaya, and a grandson of Ivan III. He succeeded his father after his death, when he was three years old. A group of reformers unit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible
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web search NEUTRAL — Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, and devastating tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ivan
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web search NEUTRAL — Ivan (Cyrillic: Иван) is a male given name of Slavic origin, related to a variant of the Greek name Iōánnēs (English: John), which in turn derives from the Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānnān), meaning "God is …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan
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“A man reportedly shot and killed four people on April 18 with a carbine in the Goloseevsky district of Kiev and then took shoppers at a local supermarket hostage.”
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Multiple web search results report a similar incident on April 18 involving a gunman in Kyiv, describing the shooting and hostage situation. One source mentions the Holosiivskyi district and the killing of multiple people, corroborating the core elements of the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alexei Goloseyevskiy (Russian: Алексий Голосеевский, secular name Vladimir Ivanovich Shepelev, Russian: Владимир Иванович Шепелев; born 14 April 1840 in Kyiv, died 11 March 1917 in Kyiv) was an Orthod…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Shepelev
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web search NEUTRAL — A gunman who killed at least six people in Kyiv and took hostages has been shot dead by Ukrainian police, officials said. The attack occurred on Saturday in the capital's Holosiivskyi district ...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/18/ukraine-police-shoo…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dan Bashakov Police officers are seen at the site where a gunman killed at least six people in the streets before being shot dead by police, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo ...
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-04-18/ukrain…
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“Special forces arriving at the scene, after fruitless negotiations, began storming the premises, during which the perpetrator was neutralized.”
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The evidence provided for this claim consists of general information about special forces and does not contain any specific reports corroborating that special forces stormed the premises after unsuccessful negotiations to neutralize a perpetrator in the context of the Kyiv incident. The claim relies on the initial report mentioned.
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web search NEUTRAL — Special forces have played an important role throughout the history of warfare, whenever the aim was to achieve disruption by "hit and run" and sabotage, rather than more traditional conventional comb…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_forces
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web search NEUTRAL — The U.S. and Israel have discussed sending special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium at a later stage of the war, according to four sources with knowledge of the disc…
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/08/iran-ground-troops-special-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Keywords: genocide; perpetrators; moral neutralization; neutralization-drift theory; Rwanda. Introduction: Reconciling with the Moral Context. Genocide, the extermination of huma n beings en masse acc…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321751315_'Who_Was_…
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“Later, it was established that the attacker had shot one of the hostages in the supermarket.”
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The evidence provided for this claim includes reports of supermarket sieges (e.g., Hypercacher, French Supermarket Hostage Taking), but none of the provided snippets confirm the specific detail that 'it was later established that the attacker had shot one of the hostages in the supermarket' related to the April 18 incident.
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web search NEUTRAL — There, Coulibaly murdered four Jewish hostages and held fifteen other hostages during a siege in which he demanded that the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, the Kouachi brothers, not be har…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercacher_kosher_supermarket…
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web search NEUTRAL — 10. The youngest man linked to the attack handed himself in hours later. The 18-year-old reported to police after seeing his name mentioned on social media. His classmates say he was at school at the …
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/charlie-hebdo-attac…
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 Killed In France Shooting, Hostage Scene. ISIS Terror Link Under Probe. French President Emmanuel Macron said the incident appeared to be a terrorist attack and security forces were securing the are…
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/shooting-hostage-taking-in-s…
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“As a result of the perpetrator’s actions, 14 people were wounded, one of whom later died in the hospital.”
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The evidence provided contains general information about casualties (e.g., Nairobi attack, school shooting) but does not contain multiple independent sources confirming the specific casualty count of '14 people wounded, and one person later dying in the hospital' related to the April 18 incident. The claim relies on the initial report mentioned.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fourteen or 14 may refer to: 14 (number), the natural number following 13 and preceding 15 one of the years 14 BC, AD 14, 1914, 2014
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus are smartphones that were developed and marketed by Apple. They are the sixteenth-generation iPhones, succeeding the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Mini, and were announced d…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_14
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 14 (also known as Existence; U.S. title: The Wild Little Bunch) is a 1973 British drama film directed by David Hemmings and starring Jack Wild and June Brown. It was written by Roland Starke. Its …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_14
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“The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine classified the shooting as a terrorist attack.”
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No evidence was gathered for this claim, and no web search or cross-reference provided any information regarding the Prosecutor General’s Office classifying the shooting as a terrorist attack.
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