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The Guardian
a day ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ukraine secret service says it killed Russian agents suspected of Kyiv assassination
Ukrainian intelligence agents killed members of a Russian secret service cell wanted on suspicion of having shot dead a colonel last week, the SBU said. The SBU intelligence agency said in a statement that the operation had sought the arrest of the agents of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), who it believes were behind the killing of Colonel Ivan Voronych – also a member of the SBU security service – in Kyiv on Thursday. 'This morning a special operation was conducted, during which the members of the Russian FSB's agent cell started to resist, and therefore they were liquidated,' a statement on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday said. Russian authorities made no immediate public comment on Sunday's operation, which mirrored past assassinations of senior Russian military officials by Ukraine during the three-year-old war – a source of embarrassment for Moscow's vast intelligence agencies. The SBU said two people – a man and a woman – were suspected of having killed Voronych in a bold daylight attack that was caught on surveillance cameras. It did not say how many suspected FSB agents had been killed on Sunday, but the SBU posted a video in which two bodies were visible. Media reports claimed that Voronych was involved in covert operations in Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine and reportedly helped organise Ukraine's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk region last year. According to the SBU, the alleged assassins were told by their handler to surveil their target and track his movements. They were eventually given the coordinates of a hiding place where they found a pistol with a suppressor, the SBU said. It said they had tried to 'lay low' after Thursday's killing but were tracked down by the SBU and police. The agency's remit covers security and counterintelligence, but since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine it has also played a prominent role in special operations against Moscow, including assassinations and sabotage attacks. After a series of huge attacks across Ukraine involving hundreds of exploding drones, Russia launched 60 drones overnight into Sunday, Ukraine's air force said. It said 20 of them were shot down and 20 others were jammed. On Sunday, Ukrainian authorities reported that four civilians were killed and 13 others injured in Russian attacks on the Donetsk and Kherson regions since Saturday. With Reuters, Agence France-Presse and the Associated Press
Bloomberg
2 days ago
- Bloomberg
Ukraine Says It Killed Russian Agents Who Assassinated Officer
The Security Service of Ukraine said that two people allegedly responsible for assassinating a key domestic intelligence official in a Kyiv parking lot were killed in a firefight last week. Security Service Colonel Ivan Voronych was killed on July 10 by the pair — a man and a woman — hired by Russian special services, or FSB, Ukraine's SBU said Sunday on Telegram.
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First Post
2 days ago
- Politics
- First Post
Ukraine says it killed 2 Russian agents suspected of assassinating an intelligence officer
Ukraine's Security Service said that it had killed two Russian agents suspected of killing a Ukrainian intelligence officer last week. read more CCTV footage shows the SBU officer walking down the stairs moments before he was shot in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 10. Ukrainska Pravda/Reuters As the Russia-Ukraine war continues to escalate, the Ukrainian Security Service said on Sunday that it had killed Russian special service agents suspected of killing an intelligence officer in Kyiv earlier this week. The news of the agents came days after Ukraine said that it believed Russia's Federal Security Service was responsible for the attack. On Thursday morning, SBU officer Ivan Voronych was shot dead in Kyiv in what Ukrainian authorities claimed was an apparent case of assassination. In the statement released on Sunday, the SBU maintained that the suspects, a man and a woman, tried to 'lay low' after the shooting incident. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD However, the SBU and the Ukrainian National Police officers managed to establish their whereabouts in the Kyiv region. 'As a result of covert investigative and active counterintelligence measures, the enemy's lair was discovered," the head of the SBU, Vasyl Malyuk, said in the statement. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has eliminated Russian intelligence agents who, on orders from the FSB, carried out the murder of an SBU Colonel in Kyiv. The special operation was led by SBU Head, Lieutenant General Vasyl Maluk. The FSB agent group was previously sent to… — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) July 13, 2025 Why were they killed and not captured? In the same statement, Malyuk mentioned that both the Russian agents were resisting arrest, hence that measure had to be taken. 'During their arrest, they began to resist, there was an exchange of fire, and the scoundrels were eliminated,' he said. 'I want to remind you that the only prospect for the enemy on the territory of Ukraine is death!' the Ukrainian officer said in a separate video, which was apparently filmed in front of the suspect's bodies. The SBU noted that the two agents were ordered to trail their target to establish a daily routine. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD They were then directed to a safe house where they received a pistol with a silencer. It is pertinent to note that the SBU is Ukraine's main security service, responsible for both internal security and sabotage operations against Russia. Interestingly, the Ukrainian security agency was also responsible for the audacious drone attack against Russian airfields last month, under Operation Spider Web. Voronych's killing comes at a time when Russia has been escalating its attacks on Ukraine. Last week, the war-torn nation saw both the largest and the second-largest Russian drone attack on its territory as the war now enters its fourth year.
Yomiuri Shimbun
2 days ago
- Politics
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Ukraine's Security Agency Says It Killed Russian Agents Suspected of Gunning down Its Officer
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's security agency said Sunday it tracked down and killed Russian agents suspected of shooting one of its senior officers to death in the Ukrainian capital. The Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, said in a statement that the suspected Russian agents were killed in the Kyiv region after they offered resistance to arrest. A video released by the agency showed two bodies lying on the ground. The agency said earlier that a man and a woman were suspected to be involved in Thursday's assassination of Ivan Voronych, an SBU colonel, in a bold daylight attack that was caught on surveillance cameras. Media reports claimed that Voronych was involved in covert operations in Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine and reportedly helped organize Ukraine's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk region last year. After a series of massive attacks across Ukraine involving hundreds of exploding drones, Russia launched 60 drones overnight, Ukraine's air force said. It said 20 of them were shot down and 20 others were jammed. The Ukrainian authorities reported that four civilians were killed and 13 others injured in Russian attacks on the Donetsk and Kherson regions since Saturday.
ABC News
2 days ago
- Politics
- ABC News
Ukraine's SBU says suspected Russian FSB assassins killed in Kyiv after Ukrainian agent shot dead last week
Ukrainian intelligence agents have killed members of a Russian secret service cell wanted on suspicion of having shot dead a colonel in Ukraine's SBU security service last week, the SBU said. The intelligence agency said in a statement that the operation had sought the arrest of the agents of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), which it believes were behind the killing of SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv on Thursday. The statement on Sunday, local time, said the Russian agents resisted arrest and they were "liquidated". "This morning, a special operation was conducted, during which the members of the Russian FSB's agent cell started to resist, and therefore they were liquidated," the statement on Telegram said. Russian authorities made no immediate public comment on Sunday's operation, which mirrored past assassinations of senior Russian military officials by Ukraine during the three-year-old war. The SBU said two people — a man and a woman — were suspected of having killed Colonel Voronych. It did not say how many suspected FSB agents had been killed on Sunday. The SBU reported that its chief, Vasyl Maliuk, led the operation. According to the SBU, the alleged assassins were told by their handler to surveil their target and track his movements. They were eventually given the coordinates of a hiding place where they found a pistol with a suppressor, the SBU said. It said they had tried to "lay low" after Thursday's killing, but were tracked down by the SBU and police. The senior Ukrainian security officer was gunned down in a residential parking lot in Kyiv on Thursday before his assailant fled on foot in broad daylight, according to authorities. Kyiv's police force said it was working to identify the shooter and that "measures are being taken to detain him". Neither the SBU nor the police mentioned possible motives for the killing in Kyiv. "The Security Service and the National Police are taking a comprehensive set of measures to clarify all the circumstances of the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice," the SBU said in a statement. The SBU, a sprawling domestic spy agency that has thousands of staff, has undertaken assassinations and sabotage attacks against Russia. The agency's remit covers security and counterintelligence, but since Russia's 2022 invasion, it has also played a prominent role in special operations against Moscow. Those include an extraordinary drone operation codenamed Spider's Web that targeted Russian strategic aircraft at bases hundreds of miles from Ukraine, and the assassination of a top Russian general in Moscow using a bomb hidden in a scooter. Reuters
