{"id":254525,"date":"2025-07-10T21:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254525\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T21:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:45:13","slug":"ukrainian-intelligence-officer-shot-dead-in-broad-daylight-in-kyiv-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254525\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian intelligence officer shot dead in broad daylight in Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ReutersReuters<\/p>\n

CCTV footage shows the SBU officer heading outside shortly after 09:00 local time<\/p>\n

A senior Ukrainian intelligence officer has been gunned down in broad daylight in Kyiv, officials have said.<\/p>\n

The agent of the domestic Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was shot several times in a car park after being approached by an unidentified assailant who then fled the scene, footage circulated on social media shows.<\/p>\n

The spy agency did not identify the victim, though Ukrainian media outlets have named him as Colonel Ivan Voronych.<\/p>\n

The SBU is primarily concerned with internal security and counter-intelligence, akin to the UK’s MI5. But since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, it has also played a prominent role in assassinations and sabotage attacks deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n

Sources within Ukraine’s security services have previously told the media – including the BBC<\/a> – that they were behind the killing of the high-ranking Russian Gen Igor Kirillov in December 2024.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Gen Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in a car bomb attack<\/a> in Moscow – an incident the Kremlin blamed on Kyiv. Ukraine’s security services have never officially admitted responsibility for the deaths.<\/p>\n

Neither the SBU nor the Kyiv police gave a possible motive for the shooting.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian capital’s police force said in a statement that officers arrived at the scene to find a man’s body with a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n

It said officers were working to identify the assailant and that “measures are being taken to detain him”.<\/p>\n

The SBU said it was taking “a comprehensive set of measures to clarify all the circumstances of the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice”.<\/p>\n

CCTV footage – which has been verified by the news agency Reuters – shows a man in jeans and a dark T-shirt exiting a building in the southern Holosiivskyi district shortly after 09:00 local time (06:00 GMT) on Thursday.<\/p>\n

As he walks to a nearby car while holding a plastic bag and a holdall, another man can be seen running towards him.<\/p>\n

\"ReutersReuters<\/p>\n

The unidentified assailant can be seen running towards the victim before shooting him several times<\/p>\n

Online news site Ukrainska Pravda reports that the assailant had used a pistol and had shot the SBU officer five times, citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n

The apparent assassination follows what Ukraine described as the largest Russian aerial attack on Tuesday, when 728 drones and 13 cruise or ballistic missiles struck cities across the country.<\/p>\n

Overnight into Thursday, a Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital<\/a> killed at least two people and injured 16 others.<\/p>\n

The strikes – which hit eight districts across the city – involved 18 missiles and 400 drones, officials said. Russia has been repeatedly accused of targeting civilian areas.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, fighting on the front line continues, with Russian forces slowly making advances in western Ukraine and retaking control of the part of Russia’s Kursk region that Ukrainian forces seized in a surprise offensive last summer.<\/p>\n

Russia currently controls around a fifth of Ukrainian territory, including the southern Crimean peninsula it annexed in 2014.<\/p>\n

Efforts to negotiate a ceasefire in the more than three-year-long war have faltered, with US President Donald Trump becoming increasingly impatient with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters CCTV footage shows the SBU officer heading outside shortly after 09:00 local time A senior Ukrainian intelligence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-254525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114831132335864925","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}