Ukraine says suspected Russian FSB assassins killed in Kyiv region

Ukrainian quality agents connected Sunday (July 13, 2025) killed members of a Russian concealed work compartment wanted connected suspicion of having changeable dormant a colonel successful Ukraine’s SBU information work past week, the SBU said.

The quality bureau said successful a connection that the cognition had sought the apprehension of the agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), who it believes were down the sidesplitting of SBU colonel Ivan Voronych successful Kyiv connected Thursday (July 10, 2025).

“This greeting a peculiar cognition was conducted, during which the members of the Russian FSB’s cause compartment started to resist, and truthful they were liquidated,” the connection connected the Telegram messaging app said.

Russian authorities made nary contiguous nationalist remark connected Sunday’s (July 13, 2025) operation, which mirrored past assassinations of elder Russian subject officials by Ukraine during the three-year-old warfare - a root of embarrassment for Moscow’s immense quality agencies.

The SBU said 2 radical - a antheral and a pistillate - were suspected of having killed Voronych. It did not accidental however galore suspected FSB agents had been killed connected Sunday (July 13, 2025).

According to the SBU, the alleged assassins were told by their handler to survey their people and way his movements. They were yet fixed the coordinates of a hiding spot wherever they recovered a pistol with a suppressor, the SBU said.

It said they had tried to “lay low” aft Thursday’s (July 10, 2025) sidesplitting but were tracked down by the SBU and police.

The agency’s remit covers information and counterintelligence, but since Russia’s 2022 penetration of Ukraine, it has besides played a salient relation successful peculiar operations against Moscow, including assassinations and sabotage attacks.