Saturday, July 12, 2025 - A high-ranking Ukrainian spy, reportedly involved in multiple operations inside Russia, was gunned down in a brazen daylight attack on the streets of Kyiv.
Chilling surveillance footage shows Col. Ivan Voronych, a
senior officer in Ukraine’s Security Service (SSU), crossing a street in the
Holosiivskyi district when an armed assailant ran up and shot him multiple
times at close range before fleeing. The attacker, believed to have used a
silenced pistol, was seen sprinting through a parking lot outside Voronych’s
apartment building moments before firing five fatal shots.
“With five shots at close range while leaving his apartment
at 8 a.m., the enemy killer did his dirty work,” said Roman Chervinsky, a
former Ukrainian intelligence officer, who noted Voronych had been actively
fighting Russian aggression since 2014.
Voronych, who led high-level special operations,
counter-terrorism, and security missions, was found with multiple gunshot
wounds and pronounced dead at the scene. A fellow officer quickly blamed Russia
for orchestrating the assassination.
Ukraine’s Security Service confirmed a criminal investigation
has been opened. “The Security Service and the National Police are taking
comprehensive measures to establish all the circumstances of the crime and
bring those responsible to justice,” a spokesperson said.
The assassination comes nearly three months after Russian
General Yaroslav Maskalik was killed in a car bombing outside his Moscow home,
following a deadly Kremlin strike on Ukraine. Since the war began in 2022, both
Ukraine and Russia have engaged in a shadow war of targeted killings against
each other’s military and intelligence figures.
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