Law enforcement officials have detained a suspect in the attempted assassination of the mayor of P'yatykhatky
In Ukraine, law enforcement officials have detained the suspected perpetrator of an attempted murder of the mayor of P’yatykhatky in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Office of the Prosecutor General announced this on Facebook. The detainee is a 57-year-old local farmer who has already been formally charged under the procedural supervision of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office. The issue of imposing a preventive measure in the form of detention is currently being decided.
According to the investigation, the incident occurred around 10:40 a.m. on Tuesday, May 26, near the P’yatykhatky City Council building. A verbal altercation broke out between the men during a discussion regarding the unauthorized use of land or municipal property. In the heat of the argument, the assailant stabbed the official in the chest and then fled. The investigation into the circumstances of the crime is ongoing, and the mayor, the victim, remains in the hospital in serious condition.
On the morning of May 26, police received a report of an attack on the mayor of Piatykhatky. Law enforcement officials have preliminarily established that the assailant attacked the official, stabbed him, and fled the scene. The victim was hospitalized with injuries.
In Kyiv, a military reservist stabbed a man and a woman following an argument
This is not the first such incident in Kyiv in recent months. In particular, in January 2026, an SUV belonging to a military serviceman was blown up in the Obolon district, an incident classified as a terrorist attack. An explosion also occurred in the Podil district of Kyiv, where a car detonated.
As a reminder, two explosions occurred in different districts of Kyiv last April. One was in the Desnianskyi district, and the other in the Dniprovskyi district.
