A 5-year-old boy died in Kyiv hospital on June 3. Most likely, inebriated off-duty police officers fired at his head. For three days the boy’s fate remained uncertain. He underwent a complex operation on the brain, but the injury was incompatible with life. Hromadske collected everything that is known about the murder of the child.
Hromadske: What we know about murder of 5-year-old boy
Police officer Volodymyr Petrovets, suspected of murdering a 5-year old boy, waits inside a holding cell during a hearing about puting him under arrest pending trial in Kyiv's district court on June 4, 2019.
