1. Vasyl Vasyliovych Malyuk is a Ukrainian military officer, Lieutenant General, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine since 7 February 2023.
17 Facts About Vasyl Malyuk
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Vasyl Malyuk is a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and a member of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff since 16 August 2022.
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Vasyl Malyuk was born on 28 February 1983, in Korostyshiv, Zhytomyr Oblast.
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From January 2020 to 13 March 2020, Vasyl Malyuk was the First Deputy Head of the SBU Main Directorate for Combatting Corruption and Organized Crime.
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From 13 March 2020 to 26 July 2021, Vasyl Malyuk was the First Deputy Head of the SBU - Head of the Main Directorate for Combatting Corruption and Organized Crime.
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Vasyl Malyuk was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on 16 February 2022.
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From 16 February to 27 February 2022, Vasyl Malyuk was Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
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Vasyl Malyuk later took part in multiple combat operations on the Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson directions.
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From 28 February to 3 March 2022, Vasyl Malyuk was appointed Deputy Head of the SBU.
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On 25 March 2022, Vasyl Malyuk was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
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Vasyl Malyuk was credited with planning and conducting the arrest of Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian member of parliament and oligarch suspected of treason.
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Vasyl Malyuk personally supervised the investigation and arrest of Oleh Kulinich, former head of SBU's Main Directorate in Crimea who was suspected of treason, on 16 July 2022.
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Ivan Bakanov was dismissed from the post as head of SBU by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy soon after Kulinich's arrest, and Vasyl Malyuk was appointed as the acting head of SBU on 18 July 2022.
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On 1 December 2022, Vasyl Malyuk was promoted to the rank of major general.
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Vasyl Malyuk led the SBU to carry out multiple maritime drone attacks against Russian naval ships on the Black Sea.
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On 12 February 2025, Vasyl Malyuk personally arrested Dmytro Kozyura, the chief of staff of the SBU's Anti-Terrorism Centre, who was suspected of being a Russian agent.
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Vasyl Malyuk denied that he was targeting UOC-MP clergy members, stating that he was only against Russian agents within UOC-MP.