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| Ukrainian security official is executed in Kyiv street |
| 2025-07-11 |
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A top official in Ukraine's SBU security service was rubbed out in Kyiv broad daylight today by an unknown assassin who immediately expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. Colonel Ivan Voronych was walking through the Holosiivskyi district of Ukraine's capital city this morning when a man approached him at around 9am local time, according to a report by Ukrainskaya Pravda. A masked assassin, wearing a black t-shirt and shorts, was seen on CCTV footage springing out from behind a car and blasting the 50-year-old colonel at point-blank range with a pistol as he crossed a road. He is believed to have fired five shots from a silenced weapon before turning and fleeing. The CCTV footage clearly shows the assailant sprinting down a road away from the murder scene still clutching his pistol. Moments before, he was captured administering an execution shot to the colonel who lay bleeding on the floor behind a car. Colonel Voronych was reportedly a senior operative in a department of the SBU's special operations centre dedicated to carrying out sabotage attacks in Russia. He suffered several gunshot wounds and died at the scene. More from regnum.ru The moment of the murder of the SBU colonel in Kyiv caught on video The moment of the murder of 50-year-old colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Ivan Voronich on July 10 in Kiev was captured on a surveillance camera. The footage shows that it all happened during daylight hours. An unmasked stranger approached Voronich in the courtyard of the house and opened fire at him almost point-blank range. The SBU colonel, seeing the attacker, rushed to the parked cars, trying to hide behind them. After the shooting stopped, the alleged killer fled the scene of the crime. Earlier, Regnum news agency reported that the SBU colonel was shot dead on the morning of July 10. As reported by former Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk (included in the Russian Federation list of terrorists and extremists), the attacker fired at least five bullets at Voronich. He also specified that the murdered man was a senior operative of the department of the special operations center, preparing sabotage on the territory of Russia. Later, the SBU confirmed the murder of its employee. The press service of the department noted that a criminal case had been opened on the fact of the incident, and the circumstances of the murder were being established. |
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