Overview

• Two FSB operatives suspected of assassinating SBU Col. Ivan Voronych on July 10 were killed by SBU special forces in the Kyiv region after they resisted arrest.
• The female suspect was identified as 34-year-old Narmin Guliyeva while the male operative remains unnamed by Ukrainian authorities.
• Lt. Gen. Vasyl Malyuk said covert counterintelligence work uncovered the suspects’ residential hideout where they had earlier stashed a silenced pistol used in the assassination.
• The operatives had been directed by the FSB to surveil Voronych’s daily routine and use the cached weapon to carry out a daylight shooting in central Kyiv.
• Ukrainian authorities say they will maintain intensified counterintelligence operations to thwart further espionage and targeted killings on domestic soil.