A three-year-old boy was shot dead in central Kyiv on the evening of Dec. 1.
Unknown people opened fire at a Range Rover car which reportedly belongs to Vyacheslav Sobolev, a businessman and a member of Kyiv Oblast Council.
According to the police, the attackers tried to shoot the driver, presumably Sobolev, but missed him. The bullet hit Sobolev’s son who was in the car. The child died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. The attackers drove away in a Lexus car.
The accident occurred at approximately 5 p.m. at the crossing of Lva Tolstoho Street and Tarasivska Street in central Kyiv. Mario, a high-end restaurant that Sobolev owns, is located at the crossing.
A 3-year-old Oleksandr Sobolev, son of businessman and politician Vyacheslav Sobolev, was murdered in Kyiv on Dec. 1, 2019, when unknown people fired shots at his father’s car. (Facebook/Inna Soboleva)
The police opened a criminal probe and are investigating the scene.
Sobolev is a businessman from Donetsk, a city of nearly 1 million people in eastern Ukraine that since 2014 has been occupied by Russian-separatist forces. He was elected to the Kyiv Oblast Council in 2015 as a representative of Petro Poroshenko Bloc, the party of the former president. He used to own a chain of grocery stores in Donetsk and served as the deputy head of Naftogaz, the state-owned gas and oil company.
