A 19-year-old woman was arrested after shooting two teachers with a crossbow at a school in Poltava on Sept. 6, the National Police reported.
The woman, whose name has not been disclosed, entered Poltava School No. 11 in the morning and began targeting teachers in their classrooms.
Poltava is a city of 285,000 people, about 350 kilometers southeast of Kyiv.
Local news website Poltavshchina reported that the woman had previously studied at the school until 4th grade but was not a student there at the time of the shooting. The woman, reportedly born in 2002, was injured during her arrest, suffering cuts to her hands.
In an account of the attack posted to social media, the woman reportedly “went to the first classroom, shot the teacher in the back… Then she went into every classroom she came across and shot.”
According to local news website Suspilne Poltava, the director of the school, Valentyna Oliynychenko, reported that one teacher and the deputy director of the school had been shot. Both have been hospitalized and the perpetrator was detained at the school, with criminal charges pending.
This is the second known instance of a school shooting in Ukraine.
The first shooting took place in 2018, when 18-year-old student Vladislav Roslyakov opened fire on students and detonated a bomb at the Kerch Polytechnic College in Crimea, killing 20 people and wounding 70.
