While Ivan Voronytch came out of his apartment this Thursday morning, around 8 am, he was shot dead by a man armed with a silent pistol.
The case is relatively rare in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Security Services (SBU) announced on Thursday that one of their agents, Ivan Voronytch had been killed in kyiv. “A criminal investigation was opened for the murder of an SBU employee in the Golosiïvsky District in kyiv”said the SBU in a press release. Ukrainian security services and police “Take all the necessary measures to establish the circumstances of the crime and translate those responsible into court”continued this source.
According to the independent Ukrainian media Ukrainska Pravda, the victim is Colonel Ivan Voronytytch. Around 8 am this morning, the suspect fired five times at close range of the victim, who left his apartment, with a pistol with a silencer, also said the media, citing sources within the SBU. An unidentified video taken from a surveillance camera and relayed by Ukrainian telegram channels, shows a hooded man shoot down an individual near a parking lot, before fleeing. “Arrived at the scene, the police discovered the body of a man with a gunshot wound”said the police, saying wanting to “Establish all the circumstances of the incident”.
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“The enemy killer has accomplished his dirty work”
According to Roman Chervinsky, a former Ukrainian intelligence officer, Ivan Voronytch took up arms against Russia “From 2014” During the annexation of Crimea by Moscow and the beginning of the Donbass War. “Five shots at close range as he left his home this morning: the enemy killer accomplished his dirty work”denounced the ex-officer. Before his death at the age of 51, Ivan Voronytch would have been the head of the 1st division of the 16th department of the SBU special operations center, operations in charge of operations such as the fight against terrorism, special operations against Russia and security missions. “Eternal memory, respect and honor”pays tribute Roman dearvinsky, on Facebook. According to the Ukrainian news agency Unian, the ex-officer was “experienced”specialized “In counterintelligence” and in the “Security in the face of external threats”.
“(It was) a humble, patriotic and honest officer”also underlines Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn, officer in the Azov regiment and former SBU employee, on Facebook. The latter greets the memory of a soldier “At war since 2014 against the Russian occupants”, And who had insurgent from the start of the Ukrainian crisis, which broke out in 2013 with the Maidan pro-European revolution and led to the overthrow of the pro-Russian president Viktor Ianoukovitch. Alongside Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn, Ivan Voronych was part “First groups” who went to fight in the areas occupied by Russia. “The colonel (…) served for many years in the defense department of the national state of the SBU in the Lviv region”tells the ex-employee, who adds that his former comrade was then “Passed to counterintelligence”.
“Strike people who make decisions”
The Russians are delighted with this news. “It’s a good sign”welcomed Alexandre Kots, Komsomolskaya Pravda war journalist, popular daily in Russia, assuring that “The enemy must be afraid on its own territory”. “We must not hit the decision centers (Ukrainian forces, editor’s note), but the people who make the decisions”he supported, accusing Ivan Voronytch of being “Directly linked to the organization of terrorist attacks in Russia”. Telegram Rybar, close to the Russian army, also said that “The reasons for eliminating this SBU agent (were) numerous”sans “Exclude an internal struggle” Within the SBU, and evokes alleged operations carried out by the former officer against Russian military and civil infrastructure.
Such an attack in broad daylight is rare in kyiv, including since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022.
In more than three years, Ukrainians and Russians have regularly accused themselves of assassinations organized in particular against political and military leaders, as well as sabotage or spying.
In August 2022, the explosion of a car had killed Daria Douguina, the daughter of the Russian ultra -nationalist ideologist Alexandre Douguine.
In April 2023, a Russian military blogger, Maxime Fomine, had lost his life in the detonation of a trapped statuette which had been offered to him in a cafe in Saint Petersburg.
A few months later, in August 2023, the rumors of Ukrainian involvement in the death of Evguéni Prigojine, sulphurous and ultra-violent businessman, who had gradually freed from Kremlin until they openly challenge Vladimir Putin before disappearing in a strange plane crash had also spread.
More recently, in December 2024, the Russian Russian, chemical and biological defense commander, Igor Kirillov, was killed by the explosion of an electric scooter trapped in Moscow, an assassination which had been claimed by the Ukrainian security services (SBU). Finally, on April 25, General Iaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the Operational Directorate of the Russian armed forces, was killed in the explosion of a car near Moscow.
