Two years ago, on June 27, 2017, Col. Yuriy Voznyi of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was the third victim in a string of deaths of high-ranking Ukrainian servicemen who were targeted through car bombs. Col. Voznyi was sitting in a passenger vehicle when it exploded in the Kostiantynivka district of Donetsk Oblast.
The military prosecutor’s office investigating the death had classified it as a terrorist act, and the SBU said Col. Voznyi’s death marked the 23rd casualty that the agency had suffered since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and invaded eastern Ukraine.