<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Ukraine's Security Service says it has killed Russian special service agents suspected of gunning down a fellow officer in Kyiv earlier this week, saying it believed Russia's Federal Security Service was responsible.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>SBU colonel Ivan Voronych was shot dead in Kyiv last Thursday morning local time, in what authorities told CNN was an apparent assassination.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The suspects - a man and a woman - tried to "lay low" after the shooting, the SBU said in a statement.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/anthony-albanese-china-trip-prime-minister-to-meet-with-xi-jinping/6fa824e0-8eaf-4487-8476-3772a8ad4eb6" target="_blank"><strong><span>$120 billion export on the table for Albanese's China visit</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>However, SBU and National Police officers established their whereabouts in the Kyiv region, the statement added.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The head of the SBU, Vasyl Malyuk, said; "As a result of covert investigative and active counterintelligence measures, the enemy's lair was discovered.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"During their arrest, they began to resist, there was an exchange of fire, and the scoundrels were eliminated."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/ukraine-claims-russian-agents-who-assassinated-intelligence-officer-killed/59e123ee-1111-4276-bd15-f12657281ab2" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/small-plane-crashes-london-southend-airport/9c41bd43-ae0f-4b55-992f-f3cb007fb99f" target="_blank"><strong><span>'Fireball' after plane crashes at London airport</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I want to remind you that the only prospect for the enemy on the territory of Ukraine is death," he said in a video, which was apparently filmed in front of the suspect's bodies.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>According to the SBU, the two had been ordered to trail their target to establish his daily routine. They were then directed to a safehouse where a pistol with a silencer was waiting for them.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The SBU is Ukraine's main security service, responsible for both internal security and sabotage operations against Russia.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/western-australia-two-new-public-holidays-when-are-they/11caa855-dcd5-43c6-baae-461cd0dbe189" target="_blank"><strong><span>One Aussie state looks to add two new public holidays</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="styles__Wrapper-sc-2o34ro-0 cmwkBV"><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><a href="/content/2022/02/24/18/32/russia-ukraine-update-how-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-has-unfolded-in-pictures"><img alt="January 15" sizes="(min-width: 1024px) 636px, (min-width: 768px) 396px, 100vw" src="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/NdZj0fIgquoX7nrJjZ_dZLuq4C0=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Feb9c1719-2821-4a55-b12f-c4d73f2f4c06" srcset="https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/NdZj0fIgquoX7nrJjZ_dZLuq4C0=/396x223/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Feb9c1719-2821-4a55-b12f-c4d73f2f4c06 396w, https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/t7EuBmHEV-kJYJ6_41CNxJ6BTdU=/636x358/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Feb9c1719-2821-4a55-b12f-c4d73f2f4c06 636w"/></a></div><div class="styles__Column-sc-2o34ro-3 jJDKrX"><div class="styles__Headline-sc-2o34ro-4 hpbOlz">Ukraine holds first football tournament for war-wounded amputees</div><div class="styles__Button-sc-2o34ro-1 eBjlmW"><a class="styles__ButtonLink-sc-2o34ro-2 hqpklJ" href="/content/2022/02/24/18/32/russia-ukraine-update-how-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-has-unfolded-in-pictures">View Gallery</a></div></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Among others, it was responsible for Ukraine's audacious drone attack against Russian airfields last month.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Voronych's killing comes at a time when Russia has been escalating its attacks on Ukraine. This week marked both the largest and second largest drone attack of the conflict, now into its fourth year.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Media reports claimed that Voronych was involved in covert operations in Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine and reportedly helped organise Ukraine's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk region last year.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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