“Shopped in Kyiv on July 10, the SBU Colonel Ivan Voronich, according to the sources The Times was an architect of murder of the leader of the separatist group “Zprikrak” Alexei Mozgovy in 2015, and also participated in attacks of marine drones against the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: The Times with reference to sources
Details: According to the newspaper, 50-year-old Voronich was a personnel officer of intelligence from the Carpathian region. He joined the SBU in 1998 and moved to Kiev to work in counterintelligence after Russia’s hybrid invasion in 2014. A close former colleague described him as “a calm, very quiet person who supported himself in excellent physical shape.”
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He often announced dangerous missions. Despite his age, Voronich joined the elite special unit of the SBU “Alfa” and participated in operations in the rear of the enemy in the Kursk region of Russia, sources in Ukrainian intelligence reported.
One source claims that he was also an architect of the ambush and murder of Alexei Mozgov, the leader of the “cherry” group of Russian puppet forces in the occupied Luhansk region in 2015.
According to sources, the colonel used sea drones against the Black Sea Fleet of Russia and was a deputy in the unit of Colonel Roman Chervinsky.
According to the Ukrainian scouts, the murder of Voronich on July 10 was the first successful attack of Russia on a high -ranking Ukrainian officer since the beginning of a full -scale invasion in 2022.
According to sources in Ukrainian intelligence, in the spring, the FSB hired two killer from Azerbaijan because of an organized criminal syndicate. One of them, a woman, crossed the border from Ukraine from Moldova in May, but her male partner was denied entry due to previous convictions. Now the SBU is investigating how he managed to get to the country later.
The killer of the colonel was recorded on CCTV cameras when he escaped from the scene after killing his target from close distance. Hundreds of SBU and police officers were involved in a survey of witnesses, viewing records from surveillance cameras and finding suspicious signals of mobile phones.
The SBU reported that the suspects tried to hide in the village near Kiev, but were found within 72 hours and died in a shootout when they tried to resist the arrest.
Updated: The SBU press service in a comment to the UP stated that information in The Times, provided by anonymous sources, was not true.
SBU literally: “In particular, the killed SBU colonel Ivan Voronich had nothing to do with the” blasting of the Nord Stream “, as well as the Ukrainian special service as a whole.
Colonel Voronich was also not relevant to any special operations of the SBU with “involvement of naval drones against the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation” and “Special Operations in the rear of the enemy in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation”.
Prehistory:
- In the Holosiivskyi district of the capital, on July 10, the Colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine was shot. According to the source of the UP, at about 09:00 the man approached the Colonel of the SBU Ivan Voronich, and fired 5 sight shots from the gun, after which he disappeared from the scene of the crime. As a result of the shots, the victim received numerous penetrating gunshot wounds from which he died at the scene.
- Voronich, according to The New York Times, participated in a number of special operations, including the liquidation of Arsen Pavlov’s fighter “Motorola” and headed a unit that advanced on the Kursk region of Russia in 2024.
- On July 13, the Security Service staff reported that during the special operation they liquidated agents of Russian special services, who at the task of the FSB of the Russian Federation carried out the murder of the SBU Colonel in Kiev.