Kyiv’s Security Agency Kills Russian Agents Believed to Have Shot Ukrainian Colonel

The assassination of the colonel on Thursday was caught on surveillance cameras and circulated on Ukrainian social media.

A CCTV footage shows the purported killer running moments after the shooting of a Ukrainian security service officer in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 10, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. Ukrainska Pravda via Reuters

The Security Service of Ukraine said on July 13 that it had located and killed Russian agents suspected of shooting and killing one of its senior officers in Kyiv.

The security agency said in a statement that it killed the suspected Russian agents in the area around the Ukrainian capital after they resisted arrest. Two bodies were seen lying on the ground in a video released by the security service.