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.
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⚡Ukraine’s SBU senior officer Ivan Voronych was assassinated in Kiev, Ukraine.Voronych was responsible for multiple operations within Russia. pic.twitter.com/GozvqivHUK
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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.
