Russia’s agents killed after intelligence officer shot dead, says Ukraine
Ukraine said that two agents working for Russia were killed after a high -level Ukrainian intelligence officer was shot and killed on Thursday.
Col Ivan Voronych Hit several times In a Kiev parking lot in the daylight of the Board, after being approached by an unidentified attacker who escaped from the scene.
Vasyl Malyuk, the President of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said in a video statement that two agents working for Russia’s security service FSB were followed after he resisted on arrest on Sunday morning and were “liquidated”.
Separately, Ukraine national police, agents without further details “citizens of a foreign country,” he said. There was no immediate response from Moscow.
On July 10, the CCTV images of the incident – confirmed by the news agency Reuters – showed a man who left a building shortly after 09:00 (06:00 GMT) in the Southern Holosiivskyi region of Kiev.
Sbu said that on Sunday, the suspects watched the movements of Col Voronych before the attack and sent the coordinates of a hiding place where they found a pistol with a silencer.
After being shot, he said that they were trying to “remain low”, but after a joint investigation with the national police.
Sbu mainly focuses on internal security and counter -intelligence, like the MI5 of England. However, since Moscow’s full -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he played an important role in sabotage attacks and assassinations in the depths of Russia.
Resources within Ukraine’s security services Told to BBC He was responsible for the murder of the senior Russian gene Igor Kirillov in December 2024.
Gen Yaroslav Moskalic in April Killed in a car bomb attack In Moscow, where the Kremlin blames Kiev.
Ukraine’s security services never officially accept the responsibility of deaths.
The deaths of this week come after Russian strikes in Ukraine have reached record levels.
On Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine faced him The greatest Russian air strike so far. In June, Ukraine The highest monthly civilian losses According to the UN in three years.
Fighting, Russia’s army in the Eastern Ukraine slow gains and Russia’s most of the Kursk region of the Kysk region of Kyiv’s forces last summer in a surprise attack, the struggle continued.
In the three -year war, the cease -fire efforts to negotiate decreased.
