Russian secret service agents were killed on Sunday in the Kyiv region during an operation by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency to arrest them on suspicion of having shot dead an SBU colonel last week, Ukraine said.
In a statement on the Telegram messaging app, the SBU said it believed agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) had been behind the killing of SBU colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv on Thursday and that it had tried to detain them on Sunday.
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The SBU said two people were suspected of having killed Voronych, a man and a woman. It did not say how many suspected FSB agents had been killed in Sunday’s incident.
In a video published on Facebook, SBU chief Vasyl Malyuk, said: “During the arrest, they resisted, and there was a firefight, so the scum were eliminated. I want to remind everyone: the only prospect for the enemy on the territory of Ukraine is death.”
Shot in the street
Voronych was shot dead in the street after leaving his apartment block in Kyiv on July 10.
As he walked down the steps and towards parked cars, a masked assailant approached him and fired a number of shots from a gun with a silencer before running away.
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