Interesting Timing – Zelenskyy Planning to Remove Head of the Security Service of Ukraine
This is very interesting timing considering the recent denial by Zelenskyy that Ukraine had anything to do with the attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence.
According to Politico, Zelenskyy is removing Vasyl Malyuk as head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the state’s top counterintelligence agency. Malyuk previously worked with British intelligence on operation “Spiderweb” where Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s strategic bombers on several protected airfields (USA not informed).
Vasyl Malyuk (pictured above right) was reportedly also behind the St Petersburg terrorist attack that killed Russian blogger Maksim Fomin, 40, who was more popularly known by his pen name, Vladlen Tatarsky. The important element of this shift is the intelligence nature of Malyuk and his covert operations, which arguably did not always flow through information channels.
VIA POLITICO – Vasyl Malyuk as head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the state’s top counterintelligence agency, as part of an ongoing government reshuffle.
The reshuffle has already seen two other top spies — Kyrylo Budanov and Oleh Ivashchenko — shifted to other responsibilities. Budanov has agreed to head the president’s office, while Ivashchenko will be chief of the HUR military intelligence service. Malyuk is said to be fighting to retain his post.
[…] “Malyuk is in his place, and the results of the security service prove it. It was he who turned the SBU into an effective special service that conducts unique special operations and gives Ukraine strong ‘cards’ at the negotiating table,” the official said.
[…] Malyuk, 42, has been managing the SBU since 2023. He has overseen some of the agency’s high-profile assassinations and most daring special operations inside Russia, like the 2025 operation “Spiderweb” in which Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s strategic bombers on several protected airfields, causing $7 billion in damage to Russian military aviation.
[…] The Ukrainian official quoted above praised the performance of the SBU under Malyuk. “No other security structure currently has such results as the SBU. Why change those?” the official said. (more)
Why, indeed.
In the past several months it does appear that CIA Director John Ratcliffe has taken operational control of the CIA from the rogue, unchecked apparatus under the executive office. One could argue the Venezuela operation is a reflection of Ratcliffe finally getting his arms around it, so to speak.
Pulling the U.S. back from covert Ukraine operations in Ukraine could explain the lean forward by British Intelligence MI6 and Director Blaise Metreweli, literally the granddaughter of factual Ukraine Nazi, Constantine Dobrowolski, and the increased emphasis from Zelenskyy about needing support from London.
Again, CTH will also assert the likelihood that Volodymyr Zelenskyy likely didn’t carry out the drone attack against Putin’s residence. Everything about the timing of it during his meeting with President Trump just doesn’t fit. Instead, it is more likely British intelligence, specifically MI6 carried out the attack, timed specifically for the Trump/Zelenskyy meeting.
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