RootsOfficials have said that Ukrainian intelligence officer Keev has been closed in a broad daylight.
The agent of the Domestic Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was shot several times in a car park, contacted by an unknown assailant, who then ran away from the scene, footage circulated on the social media show.
The detective agency did not identify the victim, although Ukrainian media outlets nominated him as Colonel Ivan Voronich.
The SBU is mainly related to internal security and counter-intelligence, which is similar to the Mi5 of the UK. But since the onset of Russia’s full -scale invasion in 2022, it has also played a major role in deep murders and vandal attacks inside Russia.
Sources of Ukraine’s security services have told the media first – With BBC – He was behind the murder of high ranked Russian General Igor Kirilov in December 2024.
Earlier this year, General Yaroslav Moskalik was A car killed in a bomb attack In Moscow – an incident convicted by Kremlin on Kiev. Ukraine’s security services have never officially given responsibility for deaths.
Neither SBU nor Kiev Police gave a possible purpose to shoot.
The police force of the Ukrainian capital said in a statement that the officers reached the spot to find a man’s body with a gunshot wound.
It said that the officials were working to identify the attacker and “measures are being taken to take him into custody”.
The SBU stated that it was “taking a wide set of measures to clarify all the circumstances of the crime and provide justice to the criminals”.
CCTV footage – that is verified by the news agency Reuters – shows a man in jeans and on Thursday a dark T -shirt exiting a building in Southern Holosivski district immediately after 09:00 local time (06:00 GMT).
When he walks in a nearby car holding a plastic bag and a holdle, another man can be seen running towards him.
RootsOnline news site Ukranka Pravada reports that the attacker used a pistol and shot the SBU officer five times citing anonymous sources.
The clear murder is such that Ukraine described the largest Russian air strike on Tuesday when 728 drones and 13 cruise or ballistic missiles killed cities across the country.
On Thursday night, A Russian attack on Ukrainian capital Killed at least two people and injured 16 others.
Officials said a hit in eight districts across the city – including 18 missiles and 400 drones. Russia has been accused of repeatedly targeting civil areas.
Meanwhile, the front line continues to fight, the Russian forces gradually progressed into the western Ukraine and controlled the part of Russia’s Cursa region, which Ukrainian forces had seized in a surprising aggressive in the last summer.
Russia currently controls the fifth position of the Ukrainian region, including the Southern Crimean Peninsula, which was engaged in 2014.
Efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in a long war over three years have fallen out, US President Donald Trump has become fast impatient with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
