The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced that it eliminated two Russian agents suspected of being involved in the assassination of its intelligence officers.
According to the British BBC on the 13th (local time), Director General Vasyl Maliuk stated in a video statement that the SBU successfully eliminated two agents of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) after tracking them down.
They were identified as individuals involved in the assassination of Colonel Ivan Voronich, which took place in the capital Kyiv on the 10th. Colonel Voronich was shot multiple times by an assailant in a parking lot during the day.
The SBU reported that the suspects had been monitoring Colonel Voronich's movements in advance and had received coordinates of a location where a silenced pistol was hidden. Immediately after the colonel's assassination, they attempted to go into hiding, but the SBU, in a joint investigation with the police, successfully tracked their location and eliminated them.
The Security Service of Ukraine is an intelligence agency that carries out intelligence gathering and counterintelligence activities, and has been leading assassination operations and sabotage efforts within Russia since the outbreak of war in 2022.
The SBU is known to have conducted major operations such as the assassination of Russian General Ihor Kyrylov last December and the 'Spider Web Operation' that struck a Russian airbase last month.