According to local Telegram channels and MP Oleksii Honcharenko, the deceased was activist Demian Hanul. Klymenko, commenting on Hanul's murder, announced that the head of the National Police, Ivan Vyhivskyi, had left for Odesa. The minister also clarified that the claim the shooter was allegedly wearing military uniform was not true.

An unknown gunman shot dead on Friday a prominent anti-Russian activist in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, Ukraine's law enforcement authorities said. They did not name the 31-year-old victim but Ukrainian media said it was Demian Hanul,

Klymenko stated that a weapon, believed to have been used in the crime, was found in the apartment where the suspect had been hiding. “I thank everyone who contributed to identifying and detaining the suspected shooter.