Zelensky fires the head of the security service. What the Ukrainian president wants from the SBU
Vasil Maliuk, head of SBU Photo: Tetiana DZHAFAROVA / AFP / Profimedia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that he intends to replace the head of the country's security service, the SBU, Vasil Maliuk, as part of a wider reshuffle that also led to the replacement of the presidential chief of staff, reports Reuters, taken by Agerpres.
Zelenskiy wrote on Platform X that he asked Maliuk to focus more on combat operations, adding:
“There must be more Ukrainian asymmetric operations against the occupier and the Russian state and more solid results in eliminating the enemy,” the Ukrainian president wrote.
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Maliuk took over as head of the SBU in 2023, and during his tenure the service carried out a series of large-scale operations, including attacks on the Kerch Bridge in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, and bases where Russian strategic bombers were stationed.
