# Zelenskyy calls Kyiv shootout between Ukrainian spy services ‘disgraceful’

https://mins.news/en/item/43867

- The Guardian, 2026-09-03 14:04 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/03/zelenskyy-shootout-kyiv-between-ukrainian-spy-services-disgraceful-

> Officers from Ukraine’s domestic security service, the SBU, and military intelligence directorate, the HUR, exchanged fire in central Kyiv, injuring several people, including three HUR officers. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the incident “disgraceful”; the SBU said it “definitely shouldn’t have happened,” while state investigators opened a probe.

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