Ukraine said two agents working for Russia were killed on Thursday after shooting a senior intelligence officer of the Ukrainian intelligence officer.
Ukraine’s Protection Service (SBU) chief Wasil Malluk said in a video statement that two agents working for Russia’s security service FSB were tracked “liquid” after protesting the arrest on Sunday morning.
This Cole comes after Ivan Voronich Shot several times In a wide day’s light, in a kiev car park, after being approached by an unknown assailant, who ran away from the scene.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s National Police said the two agents killed were “citizens of a foreign country”, without any further details. Moscow had no immediate response.
On July 10, CCTV footage of the incident – verified by Reuters of the news agency – discarded a building in the southern Holosivski district of Kiev and shown immediately after 09:00 local time (06:00 GMT), while another person ran towards him.
The SBU said on Sunday that Colonel was monitoring the movements of Voronich before the suspected attack, and was sent to the coordination of a hiding place, where he found a pistol with a silencer.
It said that after shooting him, he then tried to “lie down”, but was found after a joint investigation with the national police.
SBU mainly focuses on internal security and counter-intelligence like the Britain’s Mi5. But it has played a major role in subtage attacks and murders inside Russia since Moscow’s full -scale invasion of Moscow in 2022.
Source within Ukraine’s security services Told BBC SBU was responsible for the murder of high -ranked Russian General Igor Kirilov in December 2024.
In April, General Yaroslav Moskalik was A car killed in a bomb attack In Moscow – whom Kremlin blamed on Kiev.
Ukraine’s security services have never officially given responsibility for deaths.
This week’s deaths have occurred after the Russian strike on Ukraine.
On Tuesday, President Volodimier Zelinesky said Ukraine faced it The biggest Russian aerial attackIn June, Ukraine recorded Highest monthly citizen In three years, according to the United Nations.
Along with earning a slow profit in Eastern Ukraine in Russia’s military military and resuming the control of most of Russia’s Kursk region, the fight has also continued on the frontline, which Kiev’s army seized in a surprising aggressive in the last summer.
Efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in a long war over three years have fallen out.
