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Ukraine’s Security Service has announced the elimination of Russian special service agents blamed for the shooting of a fellow officer in Kyiv earlier this week, asserting that Russia’s Federal Security Service was behind the attack.
SBU colonel Ivan Voronych was shot dead in Kyiv last Thursday morning local time, in what authorities told CNN was an apparent assassination.
The suspects – a man and a woman – tried to “lay low” after the shooting, the SBU said in a statement.
“I want to remind you that the only prospect for the enemy on the territory of Ukraine is death,” stated a spokesperson in a video, purportedly recorded with the suspects’ bodies visible.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported that the agents had been tasked with tracking their target to understand his daily routine before being led to a safehouse where they received a pistol equipped with a silencer.
The SBU is Ukraine’s main security service, responsible for both internal security and sabotage operations against Russia.
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Among others, it was responsible for Ukraine’s audacious drone attack against Russian airfields last month.
Voronych’s killing comes at a time when Russia has been escalating its attacks on Ukraine. This week marked both the largest and second largest drone attack of the conflict, now into its fourth year.
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.
