Police launch operation to apprehend armed suspect after gunfire in Kyiv

Ukrainian police are conducting a special operation to detain an armed suspect after gunfire broke out in Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi district on the morning of September 3, injuring one person. The incident follows a shootout a day earlier between Ukraine's Security Service and its Main Intelligence Directorate in the Dniprovskyi district.

The SBU says that clash occurred during investigative actions tied to a probe into an alleged Russian-organized terrorist attack, and that a group of individuals attacked its officers during a search meant to obstruct the investigation. The search connects to the earlier detention of Stepan Kaplunov, a deputy commander accused of working for Russia's FSB and plotting to assassinate a Russian opposition figure expected to visit Kyiv.

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