I know your comment is tongue-in-cheek but the overall US homicide rate is comparable to the UN casualty count for the Russo-Ukraine war (most of which will be in Donbas, not Kyiv). So I wouldn't be completely certain the rate in Kyiv is necessarily higher. I don't think there's good figures but I'd wager it's actually lower than some US cities.

Per Wikipedia, in 2019 there were 1428 murders across Ukraine (perhaps this includes the already-invaded Donbas and Luhansk regions, though I somewhat doubt it).

Let's assume all of those happened in Kiev, with a population of 2.8 million (since I can't find more specific data easily right now). That gives a wildly inflated homicide rate per 100,000 population of 51.

St Louis, Baltimore, Birmingham (AL) all had murder rates that year higher than this inflated figure.

I don't think it's in dispute that most European capitals of any size have areas where one could easily get murdered, though. I can personally easily think of areas of London and Paris where I'd not be surprised by news of it happening.

Obvious there are some exceptions, but that's why I said "western europe."

Pre-war Kyiv was still much much better than say St. Louis.

Yes, a city torn in war is less safe than SF, I'll give you that!

Might as well add Lagos too!

kiev is hardly what comes to mind when talking about european capitals.

USA! USA!

We found an example of a place more violent than most cities in the richest country on earth and possibly in all of human history!

It's a city in a country engaged in a hot war!