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.