The Head of the Security Service of Ukraine ( uk, Голова Служби безпеки України) serves as the director of the

Security Service of Ukraine The Security Service of Ukraine ( uk, Служба безпеки України, translit=Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrainy}) or SBU ( uk, СБУ, link=no) is the law enforcement authority and main intelligence and security agency of the Ukrainian ...

(SBU), the internal

security agency A security agency is a governmental organization that conducts intelligence activities for the internal security of a nation. They are the domestic cousins of foreign intelligence agencies, and typically conduct counterintelligence to thwart other ...

of the

Ukrainian government The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ( uk, Кабінет Міністрів України, translit=Kabinet Ministriv Ukrainy; shortened to CabMin), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine ( uk, Уряд України, ''Uriad Ukrai ...

. The head of the Security Service of Ukraine is ''

ex officio An ''ex officio'' member is a member of a body (notably a board, committee, council) who is part of it by virtue of holding another office. The term '' ex officio'' is Latin, meaning literally 'from the office', and the sense intended is 'by right ...

'' a member of the

National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC; uk, Рада національної безпеки і оборони України, RNBO or RNBOU) is the coordinating state body of the executive power under the President of Ukrai ...

, and is appointed or dismissed by the

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

on proposition of the

President of Ukraine The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...

List of heads of the Security Service of Ukraine

Nikolai Golushko Nikolai Mikhailovich Golushko (russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Голу́шко; uk, Микола Михайлович Голушко ; born 21 June 1937 in the village Andreyevka in Kokshetau region, Kazakh SSR) is a former minis ...

(acting), September 20, 1991 – November 6, 1991 *

Yevhen Marchuk Yevhen Kyrylovych Marchuk ( uk, Євге́н Кири́лович Марчу́к; 28 January 1941 – 5 August 2021) was a Ukrainian politician, intelligence officer, and general who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Ukraine after its indep ...

, November 6, 1991 – July 12, 1994 * Valeriy Malikov, July 12, 1994 – July 3, 1995 *

Volodymyr Radchenko Volodymyr Ivanovych Radchenko ( uk, Володимир Іванович Радченко; 23 October 1948 – 4 January 2023) was a Ukrainian politician and General of Army of Ukraine. Radchenko served as Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukrai ...

, July 3, 1995 – April 22, 1998 *

Leonid Derkach Leonid Vasylovych Derkach ( uk, Леонід Васильович Деркач; 19 July 1939 – 14 January 2022) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician, intelligence officer, and general who was Head of the Security Service of Ukraine from 22 Apr ...

, April 22, 1998 – February 10, 2001 *

, February 10, 2001 – September 2, 2003 *

Ihor Smeshko Colonel General Ihor Petrovich Smeshko ( uk, Ігор Петрович Смешко, born 17 August 1955) served as the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) from 2003 to 2005, where he supported the opposition during the Orange Revolutio ...

, September 4, 2003 – February 4, 2005 *

Oleksandr Turchynov Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov ( uk, Олександр Валентинович Турчинов; born 31 March 1964) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, Baptist minister and economist. He is the former Secretary of the National S ...

, February 4, 2005 – September 8, 2005 * Ihor Drizhchany, September 8, 2005 – December 22, 2006 **

Valentyn Nalyvaichenko Valentyn Oleksandrovych Nalyvaichenko ( uk, Валенти́н Олекса́ндрович Налива́йченко; born 8 June 1966; Zaporizhia) is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician. On 24 February 2014, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parl ...

December 22, 2006 – March 6, 2009 *

, March 6, 2009 – March 11, 2010 *

Valeriy Khoroshkovsky Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovsky ( uk, Валерій Іванович Хорошковський, born 1 January 1969 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian businessman, former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, former Minister of Finance, and former Firs ...

, March 11, 2010 – January 18, 2012.Yanukovych dismisses Khoroshkovsky from military service
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Kyiv Post The ''Kyiv Post'' is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden. History American Jed Sunden founded the ''Kyiv Post'' weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. ...

'' (January 19, 2012) **

Volodymyr Rokytsky Volodymyr ( uk, Володи́мир, Volodýmyr, , orv, Володимѣръ) is a Ukrainian given name of Old East Slavic origin. The related Ancient Slavic, such as Czech, Russian, Serbian, Croatian, etc. form of the name is Володимѣръ ...

(acting), January 19, 2012 – February 3, 2012 *

Ihor Kalinin Igor Olegovich Kalinin (russian: Игорь Олегович Калинин; born 11 November 1995) is a Russian football left-back. He plays for FC Fakel Voronezh on loan from FC Rostov. Career He is product of Sports School #5 Sevastopol an ...

, February 3, 2012 – January 9, 2013Yanukovych names new Kalinin as state security chief
''

'' (February 3, 2012) * Oleksandr Yakymenko, January 9, 2013 – February 24, 2014President calls on officials for joint work on reform in SBU

(January 10, 2013)Ukrainian parliament appoints Nalyvaichenko as security service chief

Interfax-Ukraine The Interfax-Ukraine ( uk, Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Kyiv-based Ukraine, Ukrainian independent news agency founded in 1992. The company does not belong to the Russian news corporation Interfax Information Services. The company pub ...

(24 February 2014) *

, February 24, 2014 – June 18, 2015 *

Vasyl Hrytsak Vasyl Serhiiovych Hrytsak ( uk, Василь Сергійович Грицак; born 14 January 1967, Bushcha, Dubno Raion, Rivne Oblast, the USSR) is a Ukrainian serviceman, army general, and the fourteenth head of the Security Service of Ukraine ...

, July 2, 2015 – May 22, 2019Rada appoints Vasyl Hrytsak Ukrainian Security Service chief

(2 July 2015) *

Ivan Bakanov Ivan Hennadiyovych Bakanov, ( uk, Іван Геннадійович Баканов; born 2 May 1975) is a Ukrainian politician who, from 2019 to 2022, served as head of the Security Service of Ukraine, which is the primary counterintelligence a ...

(August 29, 2019 – July 17, 2022) *

Vasyl Malyuk Vasyl Vasylyovych Malyuk (Ukrainian: Василь Васильович Малюк; born 28 February 1983), is a Ukrainian political military officer and brigadier general, who has been the acting head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) sin ...

(July 17, 2022 – present)

References

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