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)
