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| SBU Colonel Eliminated in Kyiv Participated in Organizing the Murder of 'Motorola' |
| 2025-07-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. In reference to this story and this story at rantburg.com in 2016. [ColonelCassad] The NYT reports that SBU Colonel Voronich, who was killed yesterday in Kiev by an unknown shooter, was involved in organizing the murder of Sparta Battalion commander Arsen Pavlov (call sign "Motorola"). If this is true, then retribution for the murder of "Motor" came 9 years later. But of course, Voronich was not the only one involved, so... "Motorola" was blown up in an elevator in Donetsk in 2016 after a series of unsuccessful assassination attempts. More from regnum.ru SBU Colonel Shot Dead in Kyiv Was Linked to Motorola's Murder Ivan Voronich, a colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) who was shot dead in the center of Kiev, turned out to be connected with the murder of the commander of the Donbass militia Arsen Pavlov (Motorola). This was reported on July 11 by the American newspaper The New York Times (NYT). The article states that Voronich began working for the SBU in the mid-1990s and quickly became head of the Fifth Directorate. "The unit, known as the Fifth Directorate and receiving technical support from the CIA, was responsible for the assassination of high-ranking commander Arsen Pavlov," the publication says. Pavlov was killed in Donetsk on October 16, 2016. |
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