In the Cherkasy region, four police officers died while detaining a murder suspect, said the head of the National Police, Ivan Vyhivskyi, APA reports, citing prm.ua.
Another law enforcement officer was injured.
According to Vyhovsky, during the operation, the suspect opened aimed fire on law enforcement officers. Police special forces eliminated the attacker, but at the cost of the lives of four officers.
“Four police officers gave their lives so that the attacker could never again encroach on the lives of peaceful people. This is a terrible price paid by those who remained in the ranks until the last,” Vyhivskyi wrote.