Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) said today it had killed people suspected of being Russian agents responsible for the murder of a Ukrainian intelligence officer.
The officer, Colonel Ivan Voronic, who worked for the SBU, was killed in Kiev on Thursday, a relatively rare case in Ukraine.
The SBU said it had conducted an operation in the Kiev region today to arrest suspects in his murder, identified as agents of the Russian Security Service (FSB).
During the arrest, members of the group "resisted and were neutralized," the SBU said.
The Ukrainian service did not say how many people were killed during the operation, but they released a video showing two bodies.
The murder of the Ukrainian colonel was committed, according to the SBU, by a man and a woman who were following him to find out his schedule.
A group of Russian security agents was "sent to Ukraine in advance" for the murder, said SBU chief Vasyl Malyuk.
For more than three years, Ukrainians and Russians have regularly accused each other of assassinations, especially of political and military officials, as well as sabotage and espionage.
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