Add The New York Post on Google A Russian soldier in Crimea opened fire on his colleagues, killing one and wounding another, before turning his weapon on civilians and killing three, an official said on Tuesday.
Three other people were wounded, said Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-installed governor of the Sevastopol region.
A service member of pro-Russian troops stands guard before the expected evacuation of wounded Ukrainian soldiers from the besieged Azovstal steel mill in the course of the Ukraine-Russia conflict in Mariupol, Ukraine, on May 16, 2022. REUTERS He said the attacker had been arrested.
There was no information on the motive for the attacks.
“All circumstances and causes of the incident are being established,” said Razvozhayev, urging people to remain calm and not to spread rumors.
Armed soldiers without identifying insignia keep guard outside of a Ukrainian military base in the town of Perevevalne near the Crimean city of Simferopol on March 16, 2014 in Perevevalne, Ukraine. Getty Images Crimea is a strategic and heavily militarised peninsula on the Black Sea, which Russia seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
