The spymaster at the head of Ukraine's domestic intelligence service (SBU), Vasyl Malyuk, 40, increasingly likes to talk about operations carried out by his service's commandos, telling CNN in August about his department's role in the attack on the Black Sea's "Crimean Bridge" using Sea Baby drones developed by his own service.
His desire for a news splash mirrors that of the ministry of defence's Main Directorate of Military Intelligence (GUR), which has been very keen on publicising its own operations
