Several people have been killed after a gunman opened fire in Kyiv.

The head of Ukraine's interior ministry has said that police killed the suspect at a supermarket in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district.

Ihor Klymenko said special forces entered the store, where the gunman had taken people hostage and shot at police officers, after attempts to make contact with a negotiator failed.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that five people are known to have died.

The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali ​Klitschko, added that 15 people were injured in the shooting, and said earlier that those injured included a child.

He added at around 5.10pm that a woman in her 30s died in the hospital, bringing the total to six killed.

According to the Associated Press, televised footage of the scene showed police taking cover in the shopping mall that housed the supermarket while shots were fired.

Bystanders were escorted away from the scene.

(c) Sky News 2026: Six killed in Kyiv shooting, as interior ministry says gunman also dead