Ukraine returns after the assassination of the supreme agent in Kyiv

Stay in view of the free updates

Simply subscribe to War in Ukraine Myft Digest – it is delivered directly to your inbox.

Ukraine has responded in the shadow war with Russia this week by “eliminating” agents claiming to be responsible for the most prominent target killing in Kiev since Moscow’s invasion began on a large scale.

The operation came after the killing of Ukrainian Colonel Ivan Foreonish in broad daylight on Thursday, which sent the cold via Kiev and was distinguished by the latest in an escalating battle between broad and Russian government intelligence agencies in Ukraine.

Voronic, one of the old intelligence services in Ukraine and a great personality in the alpha unit of the SBU Elite – is equivalent to an approximate air service in the UK and the American Delta strength – was filmed empty near his home walking to his car.

The security service of Ukraine (SBU), the country’s main local intelligence agency, said on Sunday that it had been followed in two Russian intelligence agents who hid after the killing. The operation was personally supervised by the head of the agency, LT Gen Vasyl Maliuk.

He claims that the husband of the killers – a man and a woman – was killed by orders from Russia FSB, according to SBU. The agency said it was located in the Kyiv region and killed during a fiery battle on Sunday morning. Their names did not reveal.

The Ukrainian media appointed the shooter and partner and reported that they were citizens in Azerbaijan. Ukrainian news site Censorship They said they entered Ukraine through Moldova in May. FT was unable to confirm this information independently. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Azerbaijan and the embassy in Kyiv did not respond to the requests for comment.

A video of Malayuk showed at the scene of the accident standing over the alleged bodies of the two killings, who were placed in a herbal area. Malekuk said that with the help of the National Police, the basic treatment unit of the suspects has identified through monitoring and combating cracking procedures. The investigation found that the participants monitored the voronych routine before receiving a weapon from the FSB processor in KYIV.

Russian officials did not comment on the killing and did not respond to a request for comment. But military bloggers aligned as Karsmin celebrated the killing of Foreonish on a telegram.

Voronych participated in secret operations against Russian targets, including sabotage and cross -border missions deep within Russia -controlled areas in eastern Ukraine and the Crimea, according to SBU officials close to it. They said that one of these operations killed the commander of the Russian Supreme Forces in Donetsk Arsene Pavlov, known as the Motorola Call, in October 2016.

SBU colleagues said that Voronicch was the key to the success of the shadow war in Ukraine against Russia, and it has sometimes coordinated with Western intelligence services, including the CIA.

In December, a SBU bombing in Moscow Lieutenant -General Jin Igor Kirilov, head of the radiological, chemical and biological defense forces of Russia, and his assistant, were killed as they left the building.

Last month, the SBU intelligence service in Ukraine conducted one of its most extent in the war. It is called a name Spiderweb processIt was smuggled and then deployed more than 100 small drones to hit four airports deep into Russia. The sites include two strategic bombers used in long -term attacks on Ukrainian cities.

Russian FSB rose last year Employment of weak Ukrainian youth To conduct spying and sabotage inside their country, sometimes it turns them into an unwanted suicide bomber.

In the years that followed Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, which led to Moscow on a large scale, a series of assassinations in Kiev and outside the capital-including the former prominent Russian deputy-were attributed to the Kremlin spy agencies.

SBU and Secret’s Secret in Ukraine claimed that it had thwarted many Russian assassination attempts since 2022 against President Voludmir Zelinsky and other officials. Zelenskyy admitted to knowing at least 10 such pieces targeting it.