gunning down<\/a> a fellow officer in Kyiv earlier this week, saying it believed Russia\u2019s Federal Security Service was responsible.\n <\/p>\n\n SBU officer Ivan Voronych was shot dead in Kyiv on Thursday morning in what authorities told CNN was an apparent assassination.\n <\/p>\n
\n The suspects – a man and a woman – tried to \u201clay low\u201d after the shooting, the SBU said in a statement Sunday.\n <\/p>\n
\n However, SBU and National Police officers established their whereabouts in the Kyiv region, the statement added.\n <\/p>\n
\n The head of the SBU, Vasyl Malyuk, said; \u201cAs a result of covert investigative and active counterintelligence measures, the enemy\u2019s lair was discovered.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n He continued, \u201cDuring their arrest, they began to resist, there was an exchange of fire, and the scoundrels were eliminated.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI want to remind you that the only prospect for the enemy on the territory of Ukraine is death!\u201d he said in a video, which was apparently filmed in front of the suspect\u2019s bodies.\n <\/p>\n
\n According to the SBU, the two had been ordered to trail their target to establish his daily routine. They were then directed to a safe house where a pistol with a silencer was waiting for them.\n <\/p>\n
\n The SBU is Ukraine\u2019s main security service, responsible for both internal security and sabotage operations against Russia. Among others, it was responsible for Ukraine\u2019s audacious drone attack against Russian airfields last month.\n <\/p>\n
\n Voronych\u2019s killing comes at a time when Russia has been escalating its attacks on Ukraine – this week saw both the largest and second largest drone attack of the conflict, now into its fourth year.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Ukraine\u2019s Security Service said Sunday they had killed Russian special service agents suspected of gunning down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-261510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114845811008680558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261510","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=261510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}