Head of the Security Service of Ukraine

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Appointer Petro Poroshenko Formation September 20, 1991		Inaugural holder Yevhen Marchuk Website SBU.gov.ua

Deputy Yuriy Artyukhov and Vasyl Hrytsak, 1st deputy heads

The Head of the Security Service of Ukraine serves as a director of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU, national internal intelligence and counter-intelligence). The head of the Security Service of Ukraine is ex officio a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. He or she is appointed or dismissed by the Supreme Council of Ukraine (Verkhovna Rada) on proposition of the President of Ukraine.

List of heads of the Security Service of Ukraine

Nikolai Mikhailovich Golushko (acting), September 20, 1991 – November 6, 1991

Yevhen Kyrylovych Marchuk, November 6, 1991 – July 12, 1994

Valeriy Vasyliovych Malikov, July 12, 1994 – July 3, 1995

Volodymyr Ivanovych Radchenko, July 3, 1995 – April 22, 1998

Leonid Vasyliovych Derkach, April 22, 1998 – February 10, 2001

Volodymyr Ivanovych Radchenko, February 10, 2001 – September 2, 2003

Ihor Petrovych Smeshko, September 4, 2003 – February 4, 2005

Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov, February 4, 2005 – September 8, 2005

Ihor Vasylovych Drizhchany, September 8, 2005 – December 22, 2006

Valentyn Oleksandrovych Nalyvaichenko December 22, 2006 – March 6, 2009

Valentyn Oleksandrovych Nalyvaichenko, March 6, 2009 – March 11, 2010

Valeriy Ivanovych Khoroshkovsky, March 11, 2010 – January 18, 2012.

Volodymyr Rokytsky (acting), January 19, 2012 – February 3, 2012

Ihor Kalinin, February 3, 2012 – January 9, 2013

Oleksandr Grigorovich Yakymenko, January 9, 2013 – February 24, 2014

Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, February 24, 2014 – June 18, 2015

Vasyl Hrytsak, July 2, 2015 – present

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