A shootout between Ukraine’s two most powerful intelligence services left three military intelligence officers wounded on Wednesday. The gun battle in a Kyiv residential neighborhood brought a long-running feud into public view.

One Ukrainian intelligence source described it to me as an internal dispute between the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the country’s military intelligence service (HUR). A second, high-level source said the shooting began after HUR personnel tried to recover one of their officers from SBU custody. The detained man was Stepan Kaplunov, deputy commander in the Russian Volunteer Corps, a formation of Russian citizens fighting for Ukraine under HUR.

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According to Kaplunov’s lawyer and Ukrainian officials, SBU officers brought him to an apartment used by members of his unit and attempted to search it. Fellow Russian Volunteer Corps service members tried to prevent the search and summoned reinforcements. Armed personnel from both agencies then gathered around the building, producing a standoff that lasted through the night. Gunfire was reported at around 11 p.m. and again the following........

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