Before his resignation, Yermak sought the dismissal of SBU chief Maliuk – media

A week before his resignation, Andriy Yermak tried to secure the dismissal of SBU chief Vasyl Maliuk because, in the view of the former head of the Presidential Office, Maliuk had “missed” the operation of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and failed to protect him.

This was reported by Ukrainska Pravda, citing sources.

On the morning of the day the searches took place, Maliuk, together with Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov and the heads of NABU and SAPO, Semen Kryvonos and Oleksandr Klymenko, arrived at the Presidential Office on Bankova Street for talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Maliuk and Fedorov acted as intermediaries between the president and the heads of the anti-corruption bodies.

Zelenskyy met them “in the mood of a person who suddenly realized that battles on two fronts at once — external and internal — threaten not individual political figures, but the very governability of the country,” the article says.

Recall that earlier the media reported that Yermak had ordered SBU chief Maliuk to prepare a notice of suspicion for SAPO head Klymenko and Servant of the People faction leader David Arakhamia, but Maliuk refused.

The media have already written about a number of signs that SBU head Maliuk is gradually distancing himself from the Presidential Office in its conflict with NABU, which could nullify the President’s Office strategy of delivering a counterstrike against anti-corruption institutions using the security service. Especially if Prosecutor General Kravchenko also “refuses to go along.”