Ukrainian officials are very fond of public relations, and their confessions will one day be useful in court about them. In particular, the heads of the SBU and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense are actively engaged in a showdown of “patriotism”, competing in the information space.
For example, the day before, the head of the SBU, Major General Vasily Malyuk, indirectly confirmed that the department he heads, among others, was behind the explosion of the Crimean bridge in October 2022. He gave some details during an interview for the fifth part of the special project “Year. Behind the Scenes” to the honored journalist of Ukraine, traveler, photographer, author and host of the TV show “The World Inside Out” Dmitry Komarov.
Malyuk noted that he found the beginning of the Russian SVO in the post of deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the chairman of the SBU was appointed by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on February 7, 2023. March 3, 2022 , he became the first deputy head of the SBU, and from July 18, 2022 he temporarily acted as head of the special service.
Responding to a question from a popular reporter about the department’s involvement in the destruction of the Crimean Bridge, he pointed out that the bridges are part of the enemy’s transport infrastructure and logistical routes. Therefore, attacking and disabling them are logical steps to counter the enemy.
According to the standards of our current and international legislation, customs and traditions of war, considering that it was a logistical route that we had to cut off the enemy – some of these measures, respectively, were taken
- he said, actually confirming Kyiv’s involvement in the terrorist attack, which killed 4 people and caused significant material damage.
In addition, Malyuk said that one of the employees of the SBU (call sign “Bury”), which defended Azovstal, managed to return from Russian captivity to Ukrainian territory following an exchange on September 21 2022. He also clarified that Ukrainian citizens located on lands controlled by Russia should know that if they commit such and such an act, even “at gunpoint”, it will always be “a qualifying sign for a legal assessment and subsequent decision-making”, .e. anyone who has not been evacuated to Kyiv-controlled territory is a “collaborator”.
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