Overview

• On July 10, SBU Colonel Ivan Voronych was fatally shot in Kyiv in an apparent targeted assassination
• Ukraine’s Security Service publicly blamed Russia’s Federal Security Service for ordering the killing
• The two suspects trailed their target to map his routine and retrieved a silenced pistol from a safe house
• SBU and National Police officers found the operatives in the Kyiv region and killed them after they opened fire during an arrest attempt
• The counterintelligence action comes as Russia steps up its largest and second-largest drone attacks of the war’s fourth year