Ukrainian spy colonel gunned down in Kyiv

By Tom Balmforth

(Reuters) -Reuters, according to the authorities and video footage, the attacker escaped in a wide -day light on foot on a pedestrian on Thursday, a high -level Ukrainian security guard was shot in a housing parking lot in Kiev.

Kiev’s police force said that he was working to describe the shooter and “measures were taken to detain him.” In a statement to an authorized Reuters, the massacred agent was a colonel in the security service of Ukraine (SBU).

Sbu, a native spy agency spreading thousands of staff, said that he had opened a criminal investigation of the murder of one of the employees in the Southern Holosiivskyi region of Kiev. They didn’t define him.

The main official of the agency covers security and counter -intelligence, but since Russia’s 2022 invasion, it has played an important role in special operations against Moscow, including assassinations and sabotage attacks far behind the façade.

Neither Sbu nor the police did not give possible reasons for killing.

“Security service and the national police are taking a comprehensive measure to clarify all the conditions of the crime and bring perpetrators to justice,” SBU said in a statement. He said.

CCTV images circulating on the social media of Ukraine showed a housing building in jeans and walking into a parking lot, walking into a parking lot that appears to have fired again and again before escaping.

Reuters was able to confirm the location of the alleged killing video using the protection box, buildings and parking layouts that match the file of the region and satellite images.

The date of the video was confirmed by using the time stamp in the reuters report.

Ukraiinska Pravda media organization showed a resource that says that the attacker had five rounds from a pistol and described his victim as a Sbu Colonel Ivan Voronych.

(Reporting by Tom BalmForth; Additional Reporting by Aaron McNicholas; Editing by Alex Richardson)