The Head of the Security Service of Ukraine () serves as the director of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the internal security agency of the Ukrainian government. The head of the Security Service of Ukraine is ex officio a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, and is appointed or dismissed by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) on proposition of the President of Ukraine.
List of heads of the Security Service of Ukraine Portrait Name Term of office Took office Left office Time in office – Colonel GeneralNikolai Golushko 20 September 1991 6 November 1991 1 General of the ArmyYevhen Marchuk 6 November 1991 12 July 1994 2 Colonel GeneralValeriy Malikov 12 July 1994 3 July 1995 3 General of the ArmyVolodymyr Radchenko 3 July 1995 22 April 1998 4 General of the ArmyLeonid Derkach 22 April 1998 10 February 2001 5 General of the ArmyVolodymyr Radchenko 10 February 2001 2 September 2003 6 Colonel GeneralIhor Smeshko 4 September 2003 4 February 2005 7 Oleksandr Turchynov 4 February 2005 8 September 2005 8 Ihor Drizhchanyi 8 September 2005 22 December 2006 – Valentyn Nalyvaichenko 22 December 2006 6 March 2009 9 6 March 2009 11 March 2010 10 General of the ArmyValeriy Khoroshkovskyi 11 March 2010 18 January 2012 Yanukovych dismisses Khoroshkovsky from military service, Kyiv Post (19 January 2012) – Volodymyr Rokytsky 19 January 2012 3 February 2012 Yanukovych appoints Rokytsky as acting SBU chief, Kyiv Post (19 January 2012) 11 Ihor Kalinin 3 February 2012 9 January 2013 Yanukovych names new Kalinin as state security chief, Kyiv Post (3 February 2012) 12 Major GeneralOleksandr Yakymenko 9 January 2013 24 February 2014 President calls on officials for joint work on reform in SBU, Kyiv Post (10 January 2013)Ukrainian parliament appoints Nalyvaichenko as security service chief, Interfax-Ukraine (24 February 2014) (9) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko 24 February 2014 18 June 2015 13 General of the ArmyVasyl Hrytsak 2 July 2015 22 May 2019 Rada appoints Vasyl Hrytsak Ukrainian Security Service chief, Interfax-Ukraine (2 July 2015) 14 Ivan Bakanov 29 August 2019 17 July 2022 – Lieutenant GeneralVasyl Malyuk 17 July 2022 7 February 2023 15 7 February 2023 5 January 2026 – Major GeneralYevhenii Khmara 5 January 2026 16 July 2026 – Major GeneralOleksandr Poklad 16 July 2026 Incumbent
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