The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced on Sunday, July 13, that it killed the Russian agents they say shot one of their senior officers to death. A video the SBU posted to social media had footage of two bodies on the ground, lying by a vehicle.
According to the Associated Press, the SBU said a man and a woman were suspects in the Thursday, July 10, killing of SBU colonel Ivan Voronych. The daytime attack was seen on surveillance cameras, the AP wrote.
Voronych was reportedly a part of covert operations in territories of Ukraine that are occupied by Russia. The AP said he helped organize Ukraine’s incursion into the Kursk region of Russia last year.
In the video, translated from Ukrainian by CNN, SBU leader Vasyl Malyuk said the “enemy’s lair was discovered” because of “covert investigative and active counterintelligence measures.”
Newsweek wrote that the SBU and National Police found the pair in Kyiv Oblast. The Russian agents resisted arrest, according to the news outlet, leading to a gunfight where both suspects were killed.
“I want to remind you that the only prospect for the enemy on the territory of Ukraine is death!” he said in the video.
This comes as Ukrainian authorities say four civilians were killed, and 13 more wounded, since Saturday, July 12, by Russia’s attacks on the Donetsk and Kherson regions, the AP reported.
Trump to meet with NATO Secretary General
As the Russia-Ukraine war continues, U.S. President Donald Trump plans to meet with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. During a recent interview with NBC News, Trump said he plans to sell NATO allies weapons they can send to Ukraine. The president plans to do this with the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which gives commanders-in-chief the authority to pull from U.S. arms stockpiles to help allies in an emergency. It’s a law that Trump’s predecessor, Biden, also used when it came to Ukraine.
“We’re sending weapons to NATO, and NATO is paying for those weapons, 100%,” Trump said in his remarks to NBC.
“NATO is going to be giving those weapons (to Ukraine),” he added, “and NATO is paying for those weapons.”
Rutte previously said that he talked to Trump and he is “working closely with Allies to get Ukraine the help they need.”
On Sunday, July 13, NATO said Rutte will be in Washington on Monday, July 14, and Tuesday, July 15 to speak to Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Rutte also plans to talk to Congressional lawmakers as well.
