Overview

• On July 13 the SBU launched a special operation near Kyiv to detain suspects in Colonel Ivan Voronych’s July 10 killing.
• SBU head Vassyl Maliouk said the suspects resisted arrest and were “neutralized,” identifying them as Russian FSB agents sent on an assassination mission.
• The security service released video evidence showing two corpses, but it has not confirmed the total number of operatives killed.
• Voronych, 51, led a specialized division within the SBU that Ukraine says posed significant challenges to Russian intelligence efforts.
• The incident underscores a deepening gray-zone conflict in which Kyiv and Moscow exchange espionage, sabotage and targeted killings.