Sept 3 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that an investigation would determine what caused a dispute between two of Ukraine's security agencies to escalate into a shootout in Kyiv this week that left three members of the Defence Ministry's HUR Military Intelligence Directorate injured.
The dispute centres on the disappearance for nine days of a Russian nationalist activist fighting alongside Ukrainian troops in the 4-1/2-year-old war pitting Moscow against Kyiv.
The nationalist said he was detained by the SBU Security Service and obliged to sign a confession that he collaborated with Russian intelligence. He later retracted the statement.
The street clash occurred in central Kyiv on Tuesday after the activist's Kyiv home was searched. SBU officers fired on members of the HUR unit. The SBU has said it was acting to prevent a Moscow-inspired plot to ****** assinate Russian anti-Kremlin activists in Kyiv.
"It is important that the truth come out. And that situations like this do not recur," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.
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The dispute centres on the disappearance for nine days of a Russian nationalist activist fighting alongside Ukrainian troops in the 4-1/2-year-old war pitting Moscow against Kyiv.
The nationalist said he was detained by the SBU Security Service and obliged to sign a confession that he collaborated with Russian intelligence. He later retracted the statement.
The street clash occurred in central Kyiv on Tuesday after the activist's Kyiv home was searched. SBU officers fired on members of the HUR unit. The SBU has said it was acting to prevent a Moscow-inspired plot to ****** assinate Russian anti-Kremlin activists in Kyiv.
"It is important that the truth come out. And that situations like this do not recur," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.
#russian #zelenskiy #dispute #members
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