Range Rover Shot at in Central Kyiv, Three-Year-Old Son of Deputy Sobolev Killed

Kyiv has launched the Siren interception plan.

On Sunday, December 1, unknown assailants opened fire on a black Range Rover near the Mario restaurant in central Kyiv. This was reported by Informator.

A 3.5-year-old boy was in the car at the time of the incident and died of his injuries in the ambulance. The shooting took place at the intersection of Tarasivska and Lva Tolstoho streets. 

Kyiv has launched an operational plan to intercept the vehicle the attackers fled in . Preliminary information suggests it could have been a Lexus. The front side window of the Range Rover on the driver's side shows signs of gunfire. The driver of the vehicle was also wounded.

As the press officer of the Shevchenkivskyi District police told Hromadske in a comment, the killer's target was the driver of the vehicle. 

Anna Zubreva
press officer of the Shevchenkivskyi District Police Department

Police have opened criminal proceedings under Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (“Intentional murder”).

Police opened a criminal case under Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (“Intentional Homicide”).

UPD: According to journalist Yuriy Butusov, the hitman's target was Vyacheslav Sobolev, a Kyiv Regional Council deputy from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, who is reportedly the owner of the Mario restaurant. The child who received the fatal wound — is his son.

The child was carried into the ambulance. A woman was sobbing, who probably did not fully understand what had happened. I suppose she was the child's mother, and she had such a smile... You know, she was hoping for something, but at the same time she had doubts... She could not believe that this had happened to her child.

Strana comments from an eyewitness to the event.

Witness to the shooting 

The child was carried into the ambulance. A woman was sobbing, who probably did not fully understand what had happened. I suppose it was the child's mother, and she had such a smile... You know, she was hoping for something, but at the same time doubted... She could not believe this had happened to her child.

Vyacheslav Sobolev was earlier a founder of Donetsk's first supermarket chain, Obzhora, and later became a deputy of the Donetsk City Council, to which he was elected in 2002. He also worked as deputy head of the Donetsk city administration for executive authorities, as a state inspector at the National Security and Defence Council, and as chairman of the board of Naftogaz of Ukraine. Since 2015 he has been a deputy of the Kyiv Oblast Council from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.