Overview

• Colonel Ivan Voronich was gunned down in a residential Kyiv parking lot on July 10 in an attack the SBU attributes to an FSB assassination team.
• The suspected Russian operatives were tracked to a safe house where they resisted arrest and were killed after opening fire on SBU agents.
• Ukrainian officials said the FSB cell had been dispatched with advance orders, safe house coordinates and a silenced pistol for the mission.
• Vasyl Malyuk credited undercover investigations and active counterintelligence efforts with uncovering the operatives’ hideout before they could strike again.
• Kyiv has not released the number of agents involved or neutralized and the operation underlines a growing shadow war between the SBU and Russia’s FSB.