Ukraine’s secret service says it killed agents suspected in general’s murder in Kyiv

Ukrainian intelligence agents killed members of a Russian secret service cell wanted on suspicion of having shot dead a colonel last week, The Guardian writes, referring to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

The SBU intelligence agency said in a statement that the operation had sought the arrest of the agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), who it believes were behind the killing of Colonel Ivan Voronych – also a member of the SBU security service – in Kyiv on Thursday.

“This morning a special operation was conducted, during which the members of the Russian FSB’s agent cell started to resist, and therefore they were liquidated,” a statement on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday said.

The Russian side has not yet issued a statement regarding the operation.