Chilling video captures moment high-ranking Ukrainian spy was ruthlessly gunned down in Kyiv
Col. Ivan Voronych, a senior security officer in Ukraine's Security Service, was crossing the street in the Holosiivskyi district Thursday when an armed attacker ran up and blasted him with bullets at close range before fleeing, according to disturbing surveillance footage obtained by Ukrainian media and reports.
The assailant, who reportedly used a silenced pistol, was seen sprinting across a parking lot outside Voronych's apartment building moments before unleashing five fatal rounds.
CCTV footage of a Security Service of Ukraine officer walking down his apartment stairs moments before being shot.
Ukrainska Pravda via REUTERS
'With five shots at close range while leaving the apartment today at 8 a.m., the enemy killer did his dirty work,' Roman Chervinsky, a former Ukrainian intelligence officer, told The Telegraph.
He emphasized that Voronych had been 'fighting the enemy since 2014.'
Voronych, who led high-level special operations, counter-terrorism and security missions, was found with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene – with a fellow officer accusing Russia of plotting the vicious assassination, the outlet reported.
'A criminal investigation has been opened into the murder of an SSU employee in Kyiv's Holosivskyi district,' a spokesperson for the security service told Ukrainska Pravada.
'The Security Service and the National Police are taking comprehensive measures to establish all the circumstances of the crime and bring those responsible to justice.'
CCTV footage of a suspect running away after the shooting of a Ukrainian Security Service officer in Kyiv.
Ukrainska Pravda via REUTERS
The attack comes nearly three months after senior Russian military general Yaroslav Maskalik was killed in a fiery car explosion in Moscow – one day after the Kremlin launched a deadly strike on Ukraine.
A bomb planted in a parked car was remotely detonated in April as Maskalik, deputy head of the Russian Armed Forces' main operations directorate, walked by the car located near his home, law enforcement sources said at the time.
Both Russia and Ukraine have conducted targeted killings since the war began in February 2022.
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