Colonel Ivan Voronych of the Safety Service of Ukraine (SSU) was shot useless in Kyiv on 10 July. The New York Occasions has info that he had taken half in a variety of particular operations, together with the killing of Russian militant Arsen Pavlov, alias Motorola, and led a unit that superior into Russia’s Kursk Oblast in 2024.

Supply: The New York Occasions

Particulars: As reported by NYT citing nameless colleagues of Voronych, the colonel served within the Alpha Particular Operations Centre and had labored for the SSU for a number of many years.

He started his service within the mid-Nineties and later commanded the Fifth Directorate – a unit that obtained technical help from the CIA and was concerned within the killing of one of many commanders of the unrecognised Donetsk Individuals’s Republic, Arsen Pavlov, alias Motorola.

It’s famous that after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Voronych was a part of an elite group working within the gray zone.

NYT says this unit performed a key position within the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ advance into Russia’s Kursk Oblast in the summertime of 2024.

The SSU has confirmed the killing of its officer and introduced that it’s investigating the circumstances. Nonetheless, no particulars have been disclosed. NYT writes that officers haven’t steered Moscow’s involvement in Voronych’s loss of life.

"Colonel Voronych took a really energetic half in countering Russian aggression since 2014," former SSU head Ivan Bakanov, who knew Voronych personally, advised NYT. "If the motive is domestic-related murder, that’s one factor. However this might be a public execution carried out by the Russians, which is a very completely different story that may require a set of instant measures from the SSU".

Background:

• On the morning of 10 July, a colonel of the Safety Service of Ukraine (SSU) was shot useless in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district. An Ukrainska Pravda supply acknowledged that at round 09:00, a person approached SSU Colonel Ivan Voronych and fired 5 focused pictures from a pistol, then fled the scene of the crime.
• On account of the pictures, Voronych suffered a number of penetrating gunshot wounds and died on the scene.

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