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Senior SBU Colonel Executed in Broad Daylight in Kyiv

Investigators have opened a criminal case, suspecting Russian special services in the attack.

A CCTV footage shows a Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officer walking down the stairs moments before he was shot in Kyiv, Ukraine July 10, 2025 in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. (CNN has blurred a portion of this photo to protect the individual’s privacy, as Ukrainian authorities have not identified the purported victim at the time of publication).
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Overview

  • A masked gunman armed with a silenced pistol approached Colonel Ivan Voronych in a Holosiivskyi district parking lot and fired five shots at point-blank range before fleeing on foot.
  • Voronych led the 1st Division of the SBU’s Special Operations Centre, which oversees sabotage missions deep inside Russia.
  • The Security Service of Ukraine and Kyiv’s National Police have launched a criminal investigation and are working to identify and detain the shooter.
  • Former MP Ihor Mosiychuk has blamed Russian special services for ordering the hit on the senior intelligence officer.
  • The killing highlights Kyiv’s urban security vulnerabilities and marks a new escalation in the tit-for-tat cycle of covert assassinations between Ukraine and Russia.