Ukrainian intelligence officer in Kyiv shot at the attack

Ukrainian intelligence officer in Kyiv shot at the attack

On Thursday morning, an officer of the Ukrainian security service was shot in Kyiv. The authorities report an obvious murder.

Details for determining

A spokesman for the SBU security service announced that an officer was killed in Kiev and the investigation had started for murder. The identity of the officer was not published, except for information that it is an SBU officer.

video recordings of the incident

Cut-down CCTV recordings that allegedly show the attack were shared in local telegram channels. CNN cannot confirm the authenticity of the recordings independently, but the places coordinate with official photographs from the center published by the Kiev police.

The clip shows a man who leaves an apartment building in Kiev during the day. He carries some bags and goes towards a car parked nearby when he is approached by a masked individual who apparently holds a weapon in his hand. The attacker fires and the man with his bags collapses on the floor. A passerby can be seen that runs away in front of the scene.

The masked attacker then fires again before fleewing from the crime scene.

Search action by the police

The Kiev police have initiated a search for the perpetrator and explains that the attacker is "identified". The police conduct the investigation in cooperation with other law enforcement authorities and confirmed that the victim was found with a gunshot wound at the scene.

role of the SBU

The SBU is the most important security service in Ukraine. Among other things, he was responsible for the bold drone attack by Ukraine on Russian clocks last month.

Under the name "Operation Spiderweb" was a great success for Kiev And a considerable embarrassing for Moscow.

SBU operative managed to smuggle dozens of drones deep in Russia, starting from near the military airfields and surprising Moscow.

Numerous Russian military aircraft, including strategic bomb planes and rare reconnaissance aircraft, were destroyed or damaged.

earlier orders of the SBU

Ukrainian security sources previously announced that the SBU behind the murder of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was looking for chemical weapons by Kiev.