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Ukraine said two agents working for Russia were killed after a senior Ukrainian intelligence officer was shot dead on Thursday.
The head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasil Maliuk, said in a video statement that two agents working for Russia for security security have been tracked and “liquidated” after resisting arrest on Sunday morning.
Comes after being Kohl Ivan Voronic fired several times In the parking lot of Kiev in daylight, after approaching an unidentified attacker who escaped from the scene.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s National Police said the two agents killed were “citizens of a foreign country” without giving further details. Moscow had no immediate answer.
Video surveillance footage of the incident on July 10 – checked by Reuters news agency – showed a man who leaves a building in the southern Holosievsky district of Kiev, shortly after 09:00 local time (06:00 GMT), while another man ran to him.
SBU said that on Sunday, suspects were tracking the movements of Col Voronych before the attack and the coordinates of a hiding place were sent where they found a pistol with a silencer.
It says that after he was shot, they tried to “lie low” but were found after a joint investigation with the National Police.
SBU focuses mainly on internal security and counterintelligence, such as the MI5 of the United Kingdom. But it has played a prominent role in sabotage attacks and murders, deep in Russia after the full -scale invasion of Ukraine in Moscow in 2022.
Sources in Ukraine for Ukraine’s security Before the BBC That SBU was responsible for the murder of high -ranking Russian gene Igor Kirilov in December 2024.
In April Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik What Killed in a car bomb attack In Moscow – which the Kremlin accuses in Kyiv.
The security services of Ukraine have never officially recognized the responsibility for death.
The death of this week comes after Russian strikes in Ukraine have reached record levels.
On Tuesday, President Volodimir Zelenski said Ukraine had faced in front of The most great Russian air attackS In June Ukraine recorded The highest monthly casualties After three years, according to the UN.
The fight also continued on the front lines, with the military in Russia making slow profits in the eastern part of Ukraine and taking control of the bigger part of the Russian Kursk region, which Kiev’s forces seized in a surprising offensive last summer.
Efforts to negotiate the ceasefire in more than the three -year war fell apart.
