Overview
- Malyuk announced on January 5 that he is leaving the top post after serving as SBU chief since July 2022.
- He said he will remain within the SBU to conduct what he called world-class asymmetric special operations against Russia.
- General Yevhen Khmara, previously an operational commander, was named interim head of the SBU.
- The exit follows controversy over SBU raids and arrests of National Anti-Corruption Bureau personnel tied to the 'Midas' case, which was weakened when an appeals court freed a key NABU investigator in December.
- Ukrainian outlets report the presidential administration pressed for his resignation to distance itself from the scandal, and ANSA says Zelensky proposed a reassignment that Malyuk declined.