From: Reuters By Tom Balmforth
- Senior security agent shot dead in residential carpark
- Gunman filmed running away on foot in broad daylight
- Ukraine security agency has major role in special operations
July 10 (Reuters) – A senior Ukrainian security officer was gunned down in a residential parking lot in Kyiv on Thursday before his assailant fled on foot in broad daylight, according to authorities and video footage verified by Reuters.
Kyiv’s police force said it was working to identify the shooter and that “measures are being taken to detain him”. The slain agent was a colonel in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), an official told Reuters.
The SBU, a sprawling domestic spy agency which has thousands of staff, said it had opened a criminal investigation into the murder of one of its employees in Kyiv’s southern Holosiivskyi district. They did not identify him.
The agency’s remit covers security and counterintelligence, but since Russia’s 2022 invasion it has also played a prominent role in special operations against Moscow, including assassinations and sabotage attacks.
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