[7] 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.

[17] On 7 February 2023, at the proposal of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Verkhovna Rada voted to appoint Vasyl Malyuk as the Head of the SBU.

[18]Vasyl Malyuk met the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.

On the very first day, he joined the defence of the country as a military officer - together with his colleagues and comrades-in-arms, he went to fight against the adversary on Hostomel direction to prevent the Russians from landing there.

They did everything to prevent the enemy troops from entering Kyiv: mined the approaches, organized fire positions, brought instructors, and trained young National Guardsmen.

It has carried out special operations of the highest level of complexity in the occupied territories: from blowing up the Crimean bridge to explosions at the strategic Machulishchi airfield in Belarus.

The SBU, for example, obtained intelligence on high-value Russian targets, enabling strikes that killed several commanders and narrowly missed Russia’s top-ranked officer, Valery Gerasimov.

Vasyl Malyuk is credited with planning and conducting an operation on 12 April 2022 to detain the former head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, member of parliament Viktor Medvedchuk, suspected of treason.

Regarding the situation with the Crimean fleet - the attack by maritime combat drones - it has been made public that the SSU devised that operational plan and carried it out.

Other modifications of maritime drones, used by the SBU in July 2023, hit the Russian landing ship Olenogorsky Gornyak and the Sig tanker in Novorossiysk Bay.

I can speak about this because I personally supervised the intelligence collection on the traitor and his detention, as instructed by the President of Ukraine, and reported to him on the progress in the case.

[29]In 2022-2023, the SBU carried out a number of high-profile investigations that resulted in serving suspicion notices to some Ukrainian oligarchs and members of parliament, including: Vasyl Malyuk commented on the SBU's fight against internal enemies as follows: We are fulfilling the task set by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, simultaneously delivering a massive strike on the internal enemy.

[20] For this, the media began to call Malyuk ‘a fighter against agents in cassocks.’[7] As of November 2023, 68 criminal proceedings have been opened against representatives of the UOC (MP), 14 of whom – metropolitans.

In a letter to the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy of 28 September, Malyuk proposed to MPs to expand the list of grounds provided by law for issuing a court ban on the activities of religious organisations whose authorized persons have been convicted of crimes against the foundations of Ukraine’s national security.

[38] The number of criminal cases against the clergymen was one of the reasons why the Ukrainian parliament voted in the first reading on a law that would restrict activities of churches in Ukraine which are controlled by the aggressor state.’[39]