A colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has been shot dead in Kyiv. Ukraine's RBC reported that an SBU colonel was the victim of the shooting in the city's Holosiivskyi district. The SBU has confirmed that an employee was shot, RBC said. Ukraine's National Police and the SBU are investigating the murder.

A senior Ukrainian security officer was gunned down in a residential parking lot in Kyiv on Thursday before his assailant fled on foot in broad daylight, according to authorities and video footage verified by Reuters.

An Ukrainian Security Service officer was shot dead in Kyiv on Thursday morning in what authorities told CNN was an apparent assassination.