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Senior SBU Colonel Executed in Broad Daylight in Kyiv

The killing signals the shadow war has reached Kyiv’s streets, prompting an urgent manhunt for the masked gunman.

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Overview

  • On July 10, Colonel Ivan Voronych, a 50-year-old senior officer in the SBU’s Special Operations Centre, was shot five times at point-blank range in the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv.
  • CCTV footage verified by Reuters shows a masked assailant in a black T-shirt and shorts firing a silenced pistol before fleeing on foot.
  • Voronych led clandestine sabotage and assassination missions against Russian targets, including coordination of the recent “Operation Spiderweb” drone strikes.
  • The Security Service of Ukraine and National Police have opened a criminal investigation but have disclosed no motive or suspect identity beyond the attacker’s attire.
  • As the first known daylight killing of a Ukrainian intelligence officer on home soil, the assassination underscores the widening reach of covert hostilities into urban centers.