Shootout in Kyiv between Ukrainian spy services ‘disgraceful’, says Zelenskyy
Domestic security service says clash with military intelligence directorate ‘definitely shouldn’t have happened’
TL;DR
- A shootout between officers of Ukraine's SBU and HUR security services took place in central Kyiv, causing injuries.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the incident as 'disgraceful' and stated that shooting is only permitted against Russian occupiers.
- The clash appears to have originated from the SBU's arrest of a Russian man fighting for Ukraine under the HUR's supervision.
- The SBU claimed it had foiled a Russian-backed terrorist plot targeting a Russian opposition leader with the HUR.
- Following the shootout, President Zelenskyy fired Oleh Khramov, the head of the SBU's department for the protection of state secrets.
- Separate incidents of shootings in Kyiv and across Ukraine were also reported, amid intense Russian bombardment.
- Russian media reported that a Russian military officer involved in a July 2024 missile strike on a children's hospital in Kyiv had been shot.