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Ukraine's SBU reports killing Russian FSB agents in Kyiv, suspected of assassinating SBU colonel Ivan Voronych. The incident occurred during an arrest operation.
KYIV (Reuters) -Russian secret service agents were killed on Sunday in the Kyiv region during an operation by Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency to arrest them on suspicion of having shot dead an SBU colonel last week, Ukraine said.
In a statement on the Telegram messaging app, the SBU said it believed agents of the Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) had been behind the killing of SBU colonel Ivan Voronych in Kyiv on Thursday and that it had tried to detain them on Sunday.
The SBU said two people were suspected of having killed Voronych, a man and a woman. It did not say how many suspected FSB agents had been killed in Sunday's incident.
(Reporting by Max HunderEditing by Gareth Jones)
Russian secret service agents were killed during an operation by Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency to arrest them.
Ivan Voronych was an SBU colonel who was shot dead in Kyiv, allegedly by agents of the Russian FSB.
The SBU did not specify how many suspected FSB agents were killed in the incident.
The SBU stated that two individuals, a man and a woman, were suspected of killing Ivan Voronych.
The incident occurred in the Kyiv region of Ukraine.
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