Night chaos in Kiev.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded accountability and ordered a full investigation on the Kiev firefight between the personnel of Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and soldiers from Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (GUR).
The incident took place on Yuriya Shumskoho street on the left bank of Kyiv, in the city’s Dniprovskyi district.
The man reportedly clashed with soldiers from GUR while working on disrupting a Russian plot against the deputy commander of the pro-Ukraine Russian Volunteer Corps.
The SBU deals with domestic intelligence and counterterrorism activities, whereas the GUR is tasked with foreign intelligence and reconnaissance.
Financial Times reported:
“Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reprimanded state agencies after a shootout involving two rival security services broke out on the streets of Kyiv.
The incident raises questions about Kyiv’s ability to keep in check agencies whose influence and resources have greatly increased since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.”
LIVID Zelensky claims ‘absolutely shameful’ SHOOTOUT in Kiev between SBU and GUR will be investigated
Declares that the only people Ukrainians are allowed to shoot at are Russians pic.twitter.com/g5kbMTG5JN
— RT Intl (@RT_on_X) September 2, 2026
Kyiv Independent reported:
“According to Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) officers were attacked by ‘one of the units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine’ while conducting an investigation into the alleged plot.
‘During the investigative actions in the proceedings regarding the terrorist act of the FSB of the Russian Federation, an armed attack occurred on SBU officers’, it said in a post on Telegram. ‘During the cessation of armed resistance, law enforcement officers used weapons’, it added.”
Watch: Ukrainian security service officers open fire on each other.
MOMENT Ukrainian security service officers OPEN FIRE on each other in Kiev
Broad daylight gunfire erupts between members of SBU and GUR — Strana
At least 1 killed, 2 wounded pic.twitter.com/ZAWQRMifRU
— RTRussia (@RT_Russia_) September 2, 2026
“Zelensky later called the incident ‘an absolutely disgraceful situation’ involving SBU and HUR units and said Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko and the State Bureau of Investigation would determine what happened.
[…] ‘Here in Ukraine, one can shoot only at the Russian occupiers in defense of Ukraine’, Zelensky said. ‘No other shootout will ever be perceived by our state as something that anyone is allowed to do’.”
🇺🇦 One person is dead and two wounded after a shootout between special agencies in Kiev
The SBU confirmed they attempted to detain GUR personnel, and that’s when the shooting started
The GUR has yet to comment https://t.co/jTzeeuw8dQ pic.twitter.com/pweBDzPlzs
— The Other Side Media (@TheOtherSideRu) September 2, 2026
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