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Yahoo
13-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russia's agents killed after intelligence officer shot dead, says Ukraine
Ukraine says two agents working for Russia have been killed after a senior Ukrainian intelligence officer was shot dead on Thursday. Col Ivan Voronych was shot several times in a Kyiv car park in board daylight, after being approached by an unidentified assailant who fled the scene. The head of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), Vasyl Malyuk, said in a video statement that two agents working for Russia's security service FSB had been tracked down and "liquidated" after they resisted arrest on Sunday morning. Separately, Ukraine's national police said the agents were "citizens of a foreign country", without giving any further details. There was no immediate response from Moscow. CCTV footage of the incident on 10 July - verified by the news agency Reuters - showed a man leaving a building in Kyiv's southern Holosiivskyi district shortly after 09:00 local time (06:00 GMT), while another man ran towards him. The SBU said on Sunday the suspects had been tracking Col Voronych's movements prior to the attack, and were sent the co-ordinates of a hiding place where they found a pistol with a silencer. It said that after he was shot, they then tried to "lay low," but were found following a joint investigation with national police. The SBU mainly focuses on internal security and counter-intelligence, like the UK's MI5. But it has played a prominent role in sabotage attacks and assassinations deep inside Russia since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Sources within Ukraine's security services told the BBC that the SBU was responsible for the killing of the high-ranking Russian Gen Igor Kirillov in December 2024. In April, Gen Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow - which the Kremlin blamed on Kyiv. Ukraine's security services have never officially admitted responsibility for the deaths. This week's deaths come after Russian strikes on Ukraine have hit record levels. On Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had faced its largest ever Russian aerial attack. In June, Ukraine recorded the highest monthly civilian casualties in three years, according to the UN. Fighting has also continued on the frontlines, with Russia's military making slow gains in eastern Ukraine and retaking control of most of Russia's Kursk region that Kyiv's forces seized in a surprise offensive last summer. Efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in the more than three-year-long war have faltered. US has resumed military supplies to Ukraine, Zelensky says Russia's intensifying drone war is spreading fear and eroding Ukrainian morale Russia's summer push in Ukraine targets three fronts but faces stern resistance
BBC News
13-07-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Russia's agents killed after intelligence officer shot dead, says Ukraine
Ukraine says two agents working for Russia have been killed after a senior Ukrainian intelligence officer was shot dead on Ivan Voronych was shot several times in a Kyiv car park in board daylight, after being approached by an unidentified assailant who fled the head of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), Vasyl Malyuk, said in a video statement that two agents working for Russia's security service FSB had been tracked down and "liquidated" after they resisted arrest on Sunday Ukraine's national police said the agents were "citizens of a foreign country", without giving any further details. There was no immediate response from Moscow. CCTV footage of the incident on 10 July - verified by the news agency Reuters - showed a man leaving a building in Kyiv's southern Holosiivskyi district shortly after 09:00 local time (06:00 GMT), while another man ran towards SBU said on Sunday the suspects had been tracking Col Voronych's movements prior to the attack, and were sent the co-ordinates of a hiding place where they found a pistol with a said that after he was shot, they then tried to "lay low," but were found following a joint investigation with national SBU mainly focuses on internal security and counter-intelligence, like the UK's MI5. But it has played a prominent role in sabotage attacks and assassinations deep inside Russia since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in within Ukraine's security services told the BBC that the SBU was responsible for the killing of the high-ranking Russian Gen Igor Kirillov in December April, Gen Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow - which the Kremlin blamed on Kyiv. Ukraine's security services have never officially admitted responsibility for the deaths. This week's deaths come after Russian strikes on Ukraine have hit record Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had faced its largest ever Russian aerial attack. In June, Ukraine recorded the highest monthly civilian casualties in three years, according to the has also continued on the frontlines, with Russia's military making slow gains in eastern Ukraine and retaking control of most of Russia's Kursk region that Kyiv's forces seized in a surprise offensive last to negotiate a ceasefire in the more than three-year-long war have faltered.
Telegraph
13-07-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Ukraine ‘eliminates' Russian spies in Kyiv shootout
Ukraine has 'eliminated' two suspected Russian secret agents after a gunfight in a spy den in Kyiv. The man and woman killed were thought to be part of Russia's FSB and behind the daylight assassination of one of Ukraine's top spies this week. The pair are thought to have coordinated the operation on July 10 in which Col Ivan Voronich, a senior operational officer in Ukraine's security service, was shot dead by a pistol with a silencer on the street in Ukraine's capital. The suspected assassins were found hiding in a spy den in Kyiv, according to Ukrainian intelligence services. Both agents were killed in a gunfight with Ukraine's SBU security service after they attempted to resist arrest. The security service did not disclose if others were killed in the gunfight. In a video address posted to Telegram, Vasyl Malyuk, the head of Ukraine's Security Service, said: 'As a result of covert investigative and active counter-intelligence activities, the enemy lair was discovered.' 'During detention, they began to resist. There was a gunfight, so the villains were eliminated. I would like to remind you that the enemy's only prospect on the territory of Ukraine is death.' Lt Gen Malyuk claimed that the pair had been instructed by a supervisor to monitor the SBU officer and memorise his daily routine, before being handed coordinates to a cache where a pistol with a silencer was stored. Col Voronich was shot five times by a masked man using the silenced pistol in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv on Thursday morning. The senior security officer died at the scene as footage posted to Telegram showed the assailant running away, stuffing the weapon into the pocket of his shorts. Col Voronich, who reportedly headed a division of Ukraine's security service focusing on high-level operations, is thought to have played a hand in sensitive sabotage missions carried out within Russian territory. Ukraine has dealt Russia a series of recent blows in the form of assassinations of high-ranking military officials. Earlier this month, Russian Maj Gen Mikhail Gudkov, deputy commander of the Russian Navy, was killed in a Ukrainian missile attack on a command post in the Kursk region with a US-made HIMARS missile. Maj Gen Gudkov, who was one of Vladimir Putin's most prized senior officers, was the latest of at least 10 Russian major generals or lieutenant generals to have been killed in the war so far. Col Sergei Ilyin, the commander of an elite Russian marine unit, is also thought to have died in the missile strike, according to a since-deleted post by officials from his home district and unverified claims by pro-war Russian bloggers. In April, Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the main operations directorate of Russia's army, was killed in a car bomb attack in Moscow in an operation the Kremlin attributed to Ukraine. It comes as Russia's defence ministry claims that its forces have captured the villages of Mykolaivka and Myrne in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine in their advance towards the Dnipropetrovsk region. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday that at least six people had been killed across Ukraine in the latest in a series of gruelling overnight strikes by Russia which used hundreds of drones and long-range missiles. Russia has also been strengthening relations with North Korea during a three-day visit by Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister. North Korean state media reported on Sunday that Kim Jong-un had reaffirmed his 'unconditional support' for Moscow in the war in Ukraine, after an intelligence assessment from Ukrainian officials claimed that North Korea could triple the number of its troops fighting with Russia on the front lines.
Russia Today
11-07-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Assassinated Ukrainian officer ran secret ‘gray units' – NYT (VIDEO)
A senior Ukrainian intelligence officer was shot dead in Kiev on Thursday. According to the New York Times, the man was formerly part of a CIA-linked special ops unit, and more recently ran 'gray zone' operations in the Ukraine conflict. Local news reported that a man was gunned down in a Kiev parking lot on Thursday. Security footage circulating on social media showed someone approaching the victim from behind and shooting him several times at close range. The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), Kiev's successor to the Soviet-era KGB, later confirmed to the media that the deceased was one of their intelligence officers, Colonel Ivan Voronich. This morning in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district, SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych accused of several sabotage attacks in Russia was shot dead The officer had formerly commanded the SBU's Fifth Directorate special operations unit, which 'received technical support from the CIA,' the NYT wrote on Friday, citing one of the colonel's former colleagues. The unit was responsible for the 2016 assassination of Arsen Pavlov, known by his nom-de-guerre 'Motorola', a senior military officer in the then breakaway Ukrainian region of Donetsk. Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Voronich 'was part of an elite unit responsible for operating in the gray zone between the enemy lines,' NYT cited its sources as saying. His unit allegedly played a crucial role in the Ukrainian incursion into Russia's Kursk Region last year. Kiev invaded Kursk last August, aiming to take territory as a bargaining chip for future ceasefire negotiations and to divert Russian forces from key parts of the front line. Ukraine's commander-in-chief, Aleksandr Syrsky, later admitted that the gambit failed to achieve this. Moscow announced that Kursk Region was fully liberated in April. Russian authorities have since said they discovered evidence of widespread atrocities committed against the local civilian population. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kiev's forces lost around 76,000 soldiers, dead and wounded, in the incursion. As a result, Moscow has pushed 'to establish a security zone along large sections of the border,' forcing Ukraine to divert 'troops they can't spare' along the 2,000km front line, Putin said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last month. Ukrainian units are now 'stretched thin' and 'only 47% manned,' he stated.
The Independent
11-07-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Ukrainian intelligence officer gunned down in Kyiv
A senior Ukrainian intelligence officer has been gunned down in Kyiv, officials have said. CCTV footage published on social media showed the agent was slain in a residential parking lot on Thursday morning before a gunman clad in dark clothing fled the scene on foot in broad daylight. Kyiv's police force said it was working to identify the shooter and that 'measures are being taken to detain him'. The victim's name has not been publicly disclosed and the identity of the suspect remains unclear. A Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) official said that the intelligence officer had been a colonel, according to Reuters. Ukrainska Pravda has claimed the agent was Colonel Ivan Voronych, adding he died at the scene after the assailant fired five aimed gun shots. The New York Times claimed that Voronych was a part of the SBU's Centre for Special Operations Alpha and had been within the organisation for decades. Kyiv Police confirmed a man was shot in the capital on Thursday. They said in a statement on social media: 'Police officers establish circumstances of shooting in Holosiivskyi district of the capital. 'Arriving on call, law enforcement officers discovered the body of a man with a gunshot wound. 'Currently, investigative and operational groups of the district and main police departments, criminal investigation officers, dog handlers and other services are working at the scene. All circumstances of the incident are being established.' It remains unclear whether the agent's death was a domestic issue or an assassination. The Independent has contacted Kyiv Police and the SBU for comment. The SBU is Ukraine's internal security and counter-intelligence base, but since Russia began its full-scale invasion of the country three years ago, it has played a role in assassinations and sabotage attacks in Moscow. The internal security agency played a key role in Ukraine's Operation Spider Web attack on Russia last month, which is believed to have destroyed 40 Russian bombers used to pummel the war torn country over the past three years. The death of the officer comes as Russia continues to intensify its aerial strikes against Ukraine, after the air force reported a record-breaking 728 drones and 13 cruise or ballistic missiles struck cities across the country on Tuesday.
