Overview

• Colonel Ivan Voronych, head of the SBU’s special operations division, was ambushed and shot five times at point-blank range in a residential parking lot in the Holosiivskyi district.
• CCTV footage shows the masked assailant using a silenced pistol to fire five rounds before fleeing on foot.
• Voronych died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds and was identified by media reports and former SBU officer Roman Chervinsky.
• The Security Service of Ukraine and the National Police have opened a criminal investigation and launched a joint manhunt but have not identified any suspects or motives.
• Ukrainian officials suspect the attack was a Russian special services retaliatory hit in a covert war that escalated after the SBU expanded deep-penetration operations in Russia.