Putin hit squad ‘eliminated' after cold-blooded daylight assassination of Ukrainian special ops chief with silenced gun
two Russian FSB agents suspected
of assassinating the country's
special operations chief
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Colonel Ivan Voronich, head of an
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Voronych had just left his block of flats with shopping bags
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Five shots were fired at him after he emerged from a residential block, after which a man and a woman escaped from the scene.
The wanted woman was earlier named by the SBU - Ukraine's secret service - as Narmin Guliyeva, 34.
But the man was not immediately identified by Ukrainian authorities.
The SBU said in a statement: "This morning, a special operation was conducted, during which members of the agent-combat group of the FSB of the Russian Federation began to resist, so they were eliminated.
"The murder of the Ukrainian defender was committed by two people - a man and a woman.
"Their supervisor ordered them to monitor the SBU officer, establish his daily schedule and routes.
"Later, the [Russian] handed over the coordinates of the cache to the killers, where there was a pistol with a silencer."
Voronich is understood to have planned sensitive missions created to cripple
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His killer pumped five shots into his body before sprinting away.
Pro-Putin sources quickly boasted a
Putin is believes to have ordered revenge hits after being humiliated by the stunning success of
Lieutenant General and Head of the Security Service of Ukraine said: "This morning, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) carried out the detention of an agent-combat group of the Russian FSB, who had been routed to Ukraine in advance, and three days ago committed the murder of SBU officer Colonel Ivan Voronych, our brave comrade.
'As a result of covert investigative and active counterintelligence operations, the enemy hideout was located, and this morning, active measures were taken to detain them."
'They resisted, there was an exchange of fire, and they were eliminated."
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