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SBU Eliminates Two FSB Agents Accused of Killing Senior Officer

It demonstrates Kyiv’s determination to punish Russian espionage networks after the daylight assassination of a senior colonel.

CCTV footage shows the SBU officer walking down the stairs moments before he was shot in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 10.
Servicemen of the National Guard of Ukraine and members of the SBU security service hold an anti-terror drills in Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine, on October 13, 2020.
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KOSTIANTYNIVKA FRONTLINE, UKRAINE - JUNE 17: A soldier holds a machine gun and prepares to shoot down enemy kamikaze drones on June 17, 2025 near Kostiantynvka, Ukraine. Russian forces have recently increased offensive activity as they attempt to capture Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, advancing on the town from three sides. (Photo by Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)

Overview

  • The Security Service of Ukraine says its special operation was personally led by SBU head Vasyl Malyuk under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General’s Office.
  • Authorities allege the two operatives trailed Col. Ivan Voronych, retrieved a silenced pistol from a safe house cache and shot him dead in Kyiv on July 10.
  • The suspects resisted arrest in the Kyiv region, triggering an exchange of fire that left both agents dead.
  • Voronych headed high-risk sabotage operations against Russian military assets, and his killing marked a bold escalation in the secret war of assassinations.
  • Officials say the raid underscores an intensifying cycle of covert retaliation between Ukraine’s SBU and Russia’s FSB, coinciding with renewed Russian drone attacks over Ukraine.