Ukraine says that Russian agents were killed after the shooting officer

Ukraine said that there were agents working in Russia who were killed after the killing of a senior Ukrainian intelligence officer on Thursday.

The head of the security service in Ukraine (SBU), Vasyl Maliuk, said in a video statement that two factors working in the security service in Russia were tracked and “liquidation” were tracked after they resisted the arrest on Sunday morning.

It comes after Colonel Ivan Foreonish Firing In Kyiv’s parking lot in broad daylight, after an unidentified striker was close to the scene.

On Sunday, the Ukrainian National Police said that the two agents who were killed are “citizens in a foreign country”, without providing any other details. Moscow had no immediate response.

CCTV footage of the accident on July 10 – which was verified by Reuters News Agency – showed a man leaving a building in the southern Holusivsky area in Kiev shortly after 09:00 local time (06:00 GMT), while another man ran towards him.

SBU said on Sunday that the suspects were following the movements of Colonel Foreonish before the attack, and they sent coordinates to hide as they found a pistol with a silencer.

He said that after he was shot, they tried to “a low situation”, but they were found after a joint investigation with the national police.

SBU mainly focuses on internal security and combating intelligence, such as MI5 in the UK. But she played a prominent role in sabotage and assassinations attacks in Russia’s depths since Moscow’s extensive invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Sources within security services in Ukraine BBC said SBU was responsible for the killing of a high -level Russian Gen Igor Kirillov in December 2024.

In April, General Yarroslav Muscalik What? Bomb attack In Moscow – on which I blame the Kremlin on Kyiv.

Security services in Ukraine officially did not recognize the death of deaths.

The death of this week comes after Russian strikes on Ukraine recorded record levels.

On Tuesday, President Volodimir Zellinski said that Ukraine faced it The largest Russian air attack ever. In June, Ukraine recorded The highest monthly civil losses In three years, according to the United Nations.

The fighting also continued on the front lines, as slow gains in Russia in eastern Ukraine achieved control of most of the Russian Cursk region, which Kiev had seized in a sudden attack last summer.

The efforts made to negotiate the ceasefire in the three -year war.