The Occasions has reported that Ivan Voronych, a Safety Service of Ukraine (SSU) colonel shot lifeless in Kyiv on 10 July, was the mastermind behind the 2015 homicide of separatist and Ghost Brigade chief Aleksey Mozgovoi and took part in sea drone assaults in opposition to the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Supply: The Occasions citing sources
Particulars: The Occasions reported that Voronych, who was 50 when he died, was a profession intelligence officer from the Carpathian area who joined the SSU in 1998 and relocated to Kyiv for counterintelligence work following Russia’s hybrid invasion in 2014. A former shut colleague portrayed him as "a relaxed, very quiet one that saved himself in wonderful bodily form".
Voronych continuously volunteered for high-risk missions. Regardless of his age, he joined the SSU’s elite Particular Group Alpha and took half in operations behind enemy strains in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, Ukrainian intelligence sources observe.
One supply claims that he orchestrated the ambush and assassination of Aleksey Mozgovoi, chief of the Russian-backed Ghost Brigade, in occupied Luhansk in 2015. Sources additionally allege Voronych deployed sea drones in opposition to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and served as a deputy beneath Colonel Roman Chervinskyi.
Ukrainian intelligence officers observe that Voronych’s homicide on 10 July was Russia’s first profitable strike in opposition to a senior Ukrainian officer because the full-scale invasion started in 2022.
Sources in Ukrainian intelligence stated the Russian Federal Safety Service (FSB) recruited two assassins from Azerbaijan through an organised crime syndicate in spring 2025. One, a girl, entered Ukraine from Moldova in Might, whereas her companion was initially denied entry on account of prior convictions however later managed to cross the border, prompting an SSU investigation into how he was in a position to enter the nation.
CCTV captured the colonel’s killer fleeing after capturing his goal from shut vary. A whole bunch of SSU and law enforcement officials had been mobilised to interview witnesses, evaluate footage and hint suspicious cell alerts.
The SSU reported that the suspects tried to cover in a village close to Kyiv however had been positioned inside 72 hours and killed in a shootout after resisting arrest.
Replace: The SSU press service has informed Ukrainska Pravda that the data revealed in The Occasions, offered by nameless sources, is just not true.
Quote from the SSU: "Particularly, the murdered SSU colonel Ivan Voronych had no connection to the ‘Nord Stream pipeline sabotage’, nor did the Ukrainian safety providers as an entire.
Nor was Colonel Voronych concerned in any SSU particular operations involving ‘the usage of marine drones in opposition to the Russian Black Sea Fleet’ or ‘particular operations within the enemy rear in Russia’s Kursk Oblast’."
Background:
- Colonel Ivan Voronych was shot lifeless in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi district on 10 July. An Ukrainska Pravda supply said that at round 09:00, a person approached Voronych and fired 5 focused pictures from a pistol, then fled the scene of the crime.
- The New York Occasions reported that Voronych had taken half in a lot 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.
- On 13 July, the SSU carried out a particular operation to remove the Russian brokers who killed Colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv.
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