‘He’s a bulldog’: the man behind the success of Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb

Vasyl Malyuk, who hailed giving Russia a ‘slap in the face’, has scored a series of high-profile successes as head of SBU

It was unsurprising to those who know Vasyl Malyuk, the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), that his statement announcing the success of Operation Spiderweb had a certain physicality to it.

The audacious drone attacks on distant bases hosting Russia’s strategic bombers was “a serious slap in the face to Russia’s power”, said Malyuk, 42, a sometime boxer and weightlifter. “Our strikes will continue as long as Russia terrorises Ukrainians with missiles and Shahed drones.”

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