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How Kyiv grapples with Kremlin spies running amok on the home front
T he street where the life of Colonel Ivan Voronych was ended by an assassin's gun should have been safe. The hitman emerged from behind a parked car in a residential complex in Kyiv and shot him five times with a silenced pistol in broad daylight. The complex had security guards at the entrance and was home to dozens of fellow officers from Ukraine's SBU domestic security service.
Ukrainian intelligence officers say the killing of Voronych on July 10 was the first successful Russian hit on a high-ranking Ukrainian officer since the full-scale invasion began in 2022. The operation triggered an extensive manhunt that ended in a shootout between the two suspects and authorities on July 13. Both suspects were killed.
An investigation is under way into how the killers were able to enter the country, obtain weapons, infiltrate the complex and take out their target.
