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What happened in Zhytomyr Oblast on 22 May 2020?
Summary
A retrospective on a fatal shooting that followed a quarrel during a fishing trip in northern Ukraine.
What happened in Zhytomyr Oblast on 22 May 2020? A gunman killed seven people there after a drunken quarrel during a fishing trip. The perpetrator was arrested afterwards.
The shooting fell under the security category because of the number of victims and the use of a firearm. The reports from that day gave the cause as a quarrel among people who had been drinking, and they described the setting as a fishing trip.
Other security news that week
Elsewhere, on 18 May 2020, Turkish-backed GNA forces in Libya captured the strategic al-Watiya airbase from forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar. They also seized a Russian Pantsir missile system. This was part of the 2019–20 Western Libya offensive in the Second Libyan Civil War. It was unconnected to the events in Ukraine.
