India, July 11 -- A senior Ukrainian intelligence officer was gunned down in Kyiv on Thursday, media reports said, prompting authorities to launch an investigation

The agent of the domestic Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was shot several times in a car park after being approached by an unidentified assailant who then fled the scene, reported BBC.

SBU did not identify the officer.

A spokesperson for the service told CNN that an SBU officer was killed in Kyiv and that investigation into the assassination was underway.

The SBU is primarily concerned with internal security and counter-intelligence.

Moscow had launched an invasion of Ukraine that year.

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