Overview

• On July 13 the SBU announced that two individuals identified as Russian FSB operatives were killed during an armed confrontation in a special operation in the Kyiv region
• The raid was personally led by SBU chief Lt. Gen. Vasyl Malyuk after covert investigative measures uncovered what he called the “enemy’s lair”
• Ukrainian authorities say the suspects trailed Col. Ivan Voronych to study his routine and retrieved a silenced pistol from a secret cache before killing him on July 10
• The SBU named the female suspect as 34-year-old Narmin Guliyeva while the identity of the male agent remains unreleased
• Malyuk reiterated that Ukraine’s security service prevents roughly 85 percent of Russian special service operations inside the country