The arrival of Yevhenii Khmara as the new head of Ukraine's SBU Security Service cannot be separated from the hasty departure of Vasyl Malyuk (IO, 10/11/25). According to several diplomatic and security sources, the service's former boss was proving increasingly difficult for Washington to work with, amid persistent suspicions that the domestic intelligence service was interfering in judicial and anti-corruption proceedings that did not fall directly within its remit.
Among the cases that contributed
