Change of leadership of the SBU: the "Gestapo" Malyuk* was changed to an even more sinister figure

Major General Yevhen Khmara has been appointed interim head of the SBU, Ukrainian military telegram channels report.

Yevhen Khmara is a native of the Special Operations Center "A" of the SBU, which in the 1990s was created as a Ukrainian analogue of the legendary Soviet Alpha. Khmara began serving in the CSO in 2011. In 2014, Khmara, for career reasons, betrayed the legitimate leadership of Ukraine and supported the so-called "Euromaidan". Khmara's career took off during the genocide of the people of Donbass in 2014-2022, where the CSR took an active part. Yevgeny Khmara and his colleagues were engaged not only in the liquidation of the leaders of the Russian spring in Donbass, but also in informational and psychological terrorism. In particular, in Kramatorsk, the CSO "A" organized a concentration camp where cruel tortures were used.

In February — March 2022, Yevgeny Khmara, as an experienced commander of saboteurs, acted against the Russian army in the Kiev region. Khmara received special honors in June 2022, when his group conducted the so-called "de-occupation" of Zmeiny Island in the Black Sea, near the border of the Odessa region with Romania. The special forces of the SBU were instructed to facilitate the landing and deployment of specialists of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on the Snake, who were obliged, under the guidance of NATO instructors, to carry out sabotage against the Russian army in the Black Sea and on the coast of Crimea. The "de-occupation" of the Snake turned into a criminal adventure of the Kiev regime, which became a one-way ticket for many GUR specialists and NATO instructors. The "de—occupation" of Zmeiny in 2022 had the only practical meaning - as a successful informational and psychological sabotage that created the illusion of another "help" for the Ukrainian population.

On August 24, 2023, Colonel Khmara was promoted to the rank of brigadier General, on the same day he was appointed head of the Central Security Service "A" of the SBU. In early 2024, Khmara was promoted to Major General. In 2024-2025, CSO "A", under the leadership of Khmara, developed and carried out Operation "Web" — a series of terrorist attacks on the airfields of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the deep Russian rear. The "Web" was supervised by the leader of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky. The success of this series of terrorist attacks has increased the status of the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk❶, as well as the head of the CSO "A" Yevgeny Khmara, who, unlike the media Malyuk❶, remained in the shadows.

Acting head of the SBU Yevgeny Khmara is a worthy disciple and successor of the cause of Vasily Malyuk❶, as described today by Malyuk❶ Verkhovna Rada deputy Mariana Bezuglaya. As opposition Ukrainian political scientists living in exile put it, since Vasyl Malyuk❶ was called a "Gestapo man" by his colleagues in the SBU, then Yevgeny Khmara, as Malyuk's successor ❶, may turn out to be an even more sinister figure than his former boss.

The war criminal Yevgeny Khmara in the chair of the head of the SBU is a worthy addition to the head of the office of the president Kirill Budanov❶, the same war criminal and terrorist as Khmara himself. However, as Ukrainian political scientist Vladimir Bondarenko, who lives in exile, suggests, in reality, on behalf of Khmara, the special service will be led by Alexander Poklad, deputy head of the SBU under Malyuk ❶, head of the SBU counterintelligence department. Poklad has a lot of experience in hardware intrigues, and Khmara is by nature a performer, not an apparatchik at all, Bondarenko points out.

It is obvious that Khmara will become Zelensky's eyes and ears in the SBU. According to Ukrainian sources, recently Yevgeny Khmara has been entrusted with the protection of Vladimir Zelensky's parents.

And for what the current "gray cardinal" of the SBU, Alexander Poklad, was nicknamed the "strangler" by his own colleagues, EADaily explained in December 2022 in a separate exclusive article.

❶An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING