Ukrainian armed forces kill Russian agents on a spy after an assassination attempt

Ukrainian armed forces kill Russian agents on a spy after an assassination attempt

The Ukraine Security Authority announced on Sunday that they killed Russian agents from the special service who are suspected of shoting an official in Kiev. The Ukrainian authorities are convinced that the Russian domestic intelligence service is behind this assassination.

Details on the assassination attempt and the suspects

The SBU official Ivan Voronych was shot in Kyiv on Thursday morning. The authorities reported CNN of an apparently targeted murder attack. The suspects - a man and a woman - had tried to hide after the incident, according to an explanation of the SBU.

arrest of the suspects

According to the information, the officials of the SBU and the national police were able to determine the residence of the suspects in the area of Kiev. The head of the SBU, Vasyl Malyuk, said: "The hiding place of the enemy was discovered in the context of secret investigations and active counter -espionage." During the arrest, the suspects resisted, which led to a change of shooting in which the perpetrators were killed.

The message of the SBU boss

"I would like to remind you that the only way out for the enemy on the territory of Ukraine is death!" Said Malyuk in a video that was apparently accepted in front of the suspects' corpses.

background information on the suspects

According to the SBU, the two agents should follow their target persons and observe their daily routine. Then they were led to a safe hiding place where a pistol equipped with a silencer was waiting for them.

The role of the SBU in Ukraine

The SBU is the main security authority of Ukraine and is responsible for internal security and sabotage campaigns against Russia. Among other things, she was responsible for the Audazest drone attack by Ukraine on Russian military airfields last month.

Current situation of the conflict

The murder of Voronych falls into a phase in which Russia intensified its attacks on Ukraine. This week, both the largest and the second largest drone attack in the fourth year of the conflict was recorded.