Crime

In New York, a seven-month-old baby was killed by a stray bullet during a street shooting in Brooklyn. According to the police, the attack was likely gang-related, and the infant was not the shooter’s intended target.

Roman Danilyshyn, an officer with the Civil-Military Cooperation Unit of the Sviatoshyn District Territorial Coordination Centre in Kyiv, submitted a corrected declaration following the controversy surrounding his 2025 declaration. In the new version, he stated 4,716.24 Tether instead of 4,716.24 Ethereum, whilst the declared value of the asset remained unchanged at 195,016 UAH.

On 2 April in Lviv, during emergency drills, an unknown assailant stabbed a member of the Territorial Defence Forces in the neck on Paton Street. The victim died in hospital, and the police launched a special operation to track down the attacker.

WhatsApp has reported that around 200 users fell victim to a targeted attack via a fake iPhone app that masqueraded as the official messaging client and contained spyware. The company specified that most of the victims are in Italy.

The Municipal Consultative and Diagnostic Centre in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv has found itself at the centre of several high-profile scandals: legal disputes with medical staff, complaints about fee-based services, concerns regarding access to dental care, and official responses and documents in which doctors are assigned not only medical but also financial targets.

In the Khmelnytskyi region, law enforcement officers have arrested three men who, posing as officers of the Security Service of Ukraine, demanded money from a doctor. The sum in question is 65,000 dollars.

Police in the Khmelnytskyi region have arrested a group of individuals suspected of extorting money and attempting to organise a scheme to obtain disability status in order to avoid military service. The court has ordered the suspects to be remanded in custody.

In the Charlie Kirk murder case, Tyler Robinson’s defence team has argued that the bullet recovered during the post-mortem examination may not have come from the rifle that the prosecution links to the defendant. The new arguments are set out in a court submission.

It is not yet known who is responsible for the kidnapping, but media sources say she had been warned of a possible abduction by the Iranian proxy group Kata’ib Hezbollah.

The police have reported the dismantling of a network of call centres in Dnipro, whose members, according to the investigation, were defrauding people of money under the pretence of investing in cryptocurrency. The victims include Ukrainian citizens and foreign nationals, notably from Kazakhstan and Lithuania.

The Security Service of Ukraine has reported the arrest of a Russian agent in the Kyiv region. According to the investigation, he was registering Starlink satellite terminals for use by the Russian military.

Law enforcement officers have uncovered a cross-regional scheme involving the misappropriation of drones supplied to the military as part of the ‘Drone Army’ project. Those implicated include a member of the military and several civilians.