Overview

• Colonel Ivan Voronych, head of the SBU’s Special Operations Centre 1st division, was fatally shot five times with a silenced pistol in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district at around 9 a.m.
• CCTV and social media footage documented the masked assassin emerging from behind a car, firing at point-blank range, and fleeing on foot
• The SBU and National Police have opened a criminal investigation and deployed forensic and operational teams to establish the circumstances and locate the perpetrator
• Voronych led high-level counter-terrorism and sabotage operations targeting Russian military assets, marking him as a prominent figure in Ukraine’s covert campaign
• Former Ukrainian officials have publicly blamed Russian special services for the killing but no definitive attribution has been confirmed