This is very interesting timing considering the recent denial by Zelenskyy that Ukraine had anything to do with the attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence.
According to Politico, Zelenskyy is removing Vasyl Malyuk as head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the state’s top counterintelligence agency. Malyuk previously worked with British intelligence on operation “Spiderweb” where Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s strategic bombers on several protected airfields (USA not informed).
Vasyl Malyuk (pictured above right) was reportedly also behind the St Petersburg terrorist attack that killed Russian blogger Maksim Fomin, 40, who was more popularly known by his pen name, Vladlen Tatarsky. The important element of this shift is the intelligence nature of Malyuk and his covert operations, which arguably did not always flow through information channels.
VIA POLITICO – Vasyl Malyuk as head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the state’s top counterintelligence agency, as part of an ongoing government reshuffle.
The reshuffle has already seen two other top spies — Kyrylo Budanov and Oleh Ivashchenko — shifted to other responsibilities. Budanov has agreed to head the president’s office, while Ivashchenko will be chief of the HUR military intelligence service. Malyuk is said to be fighting to retain his post.
[…] “Malyuk is in his place, and the results of the security service prove it. It was he who turned the SBU into an effective special service that conducts unique special operations and gives Ukraine strong ‘cards’ at the negotiating table,” the official said.
[…] Malyuk, 42, has been managing the SBU since 2023. He has overseen some of the agency’s high-profile assassinations and most daring special operations inside Russia, like the 2025 operation “Spiderweb” in which Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s strategic bombers on several protected airfields, causing $7 billion in damage to Russian military aviation.
[…] The Ukrainian official quoted above praised the performance of the SBU under Malyuk. “No other security structure currently has such results as the SBU. Why change those?” the official said. (more)
Why, indeed.
In the past several months it does appear that CIA Director John Ratcliffe has taken operational control of the CIA from the rogue, unchecked apparatus under the executive office. One could argue the Venezuela operation is a reflection of Ratcliffe finally getting his arms around it, so to speak.
Pulling the U.S. back from covert Ukraine operations could explain the lean forward by British Intelligence MI6 and Director Blaise Metreweli, literally the granddaughter of factual Ukraine Nazi, Constantine Dobrowolski, and the increased emphasis from Zelenskyy about needing support from London.
EU & UK are world champions🥇 of “monitoring the situation” 👀 and of double standards 🎭. https://t.co/rfebf1DHA6
— Kirill Dmitriev (@kadmitriev) January 4, 2026
Again, CTH will also assert the likelihood that Volodymyr Zelenskyy likely didn’t carry out the drone attack against Putin’s residence. Everything about the timing of it during his meeting with President Trump just doesn’t fit. Instead, it is more likely British intelligence, specifically MI6 carried out the attack, timed specifically for the Trump/Zelenskyy meeting.
Holy crap! That huge Valyuk SS guy could crush the little Nazi Z with one hand!
I bet his ‘firing’ will be done via email. Lol
Once you see it, you can’t Nazi it!
Although Democrats certainly tried to unsee it:
Ukraine On Fire
“Western Media” Council On Foreign Relations managed and CIA Op Mockingbird run. “Fake News” as our President Donald J Trump tagged it.
Only people that think they are gods want one world rule. Me, I am a capitalist. Break the Too Big To Fail into smaller pieces in all sectors and let a free market of ideas and innovation carry us to the future. When they get too big again whack them into pieces. That same philosophy will work for Government get both the Federal Government and State Governments cut deeply in size and scope. Push it back to the Counties and People.
We have proved in the best system of government that sooner or later the Commies run wild and loot the people. The smaller government is the more folks in the private sector, the fewer chances for grift.
The closer the leaders are to the people, the easier it is to get to the tar and feathers.
Capitalist, But Not Too Big a Capitalist.*
*We have no bottom limit on Capitalism.
Of course there’sa bottom limit on capitalism. Why do you think lobbyists exist? The purpose of regulation is supposedly to protect the consumer, while in reality it more often serves to prevent competition for the established entities and then give them the pretense of meeting (self established) government regulations.
Far Right..
It could be that body armour is providing his apparent bulk. He is a marked man.
With this article Sundance helps me understand an article I saw yesterday in NYT: C.I.A. Source Inside Venezuelan Government Helped Track Maduro – The New York Times .
When I read the article I wondered why NYT would publish this article discussing CIA operations in the removal of Maduro.
Above Sundance points out “In the past several months it does appear that CIA Director John Ratcliffe has taken operational control of the CIA from the rogue, unchecked apparatus under the executive office. One could argue the Venezuela operation is a reflection of Ratcliffe finally getting his arms around it, so to speak.”
President Trump’s 2nd term Administration continues to execute very well.
Pretty quick, even for NYT, to put that together without some pretty blatant help from a US IC agency., likely Langley since so few were actually in on the pending operation. It seems like the equivalent of a “See? We’re back and look at how relevant we are!”
Ask yourself also why both the NYT and the WP would claim they had the information on the Maduro extraction before it began…
But decided to not publish because if they had done, it would have put the lives of military personnel at risk.
I involuntarily said out loud, “BS” when I read the tweet. When have those two rags of no journalistic excellence or ethics ever cared about all things American, especially the lives of our military and their security.
Shattering credibility like Humpty Dumpty to believe this was true. But more than that, exceedingly worrying if they actually were in possession of the operation (treasonous leaks?).
Now I am not so sure…
Perhaps there was no leak. Perhaps this is gummint media trying rattle cages and futilely attempt to signal that they believe they still have narrative power.
I simply do not believe a word they utter.
First instincts are generally correct. They’ve shown us who they are and their agendas for years.
Leopards, spots, etc.
Yeah, I ain’t buyin’ it either. My take on it is that if they had some allegedly relevant operation info leaked to them they didn’t sit on it out of loyalty or concern. And certainly not out of their nonexistent professional ethics.
If it existed, they sat on it out of fear of the extreme but kicking to which President Trump would have subjected them, and the criminal penalties that would have most surely ensued.
And published or not, if they possessed such information, it was illegally leaked and therefore illegally obtained, which, when national security is concerned, if I’m not mistaken, obligates them to reveal the source.
There’s nothing loyal, ethical or honorable about those rags, and I don’t believe a word out of them.
The members of the former 4th Estate have become so addicted to making themselves part of every important story they now feel entitled insert themselves like the narcissistic prima donnas they are.
With you Betsy, I call BS on the NYT’s piece trying to be relevant. Hopefully it is true, should be pretty easy for the DIA to hunt down a leaker
I would have thought so.
The Maduro capture has been in planning and preparation for months. Delta Force built exact replicas of Maduro’s house to practice on. US intel agencies had multiple human agents inside the Maduro administration, etc.
It might well be that the NYT and WP were getting leaks about mission preparations months ago, before Radcliffe had gotten full control. If so they knew it was in the works and might even have had a lot of details already. But they wouldn’t have had advance warning about actual timing when the raid was about to launch.
It appears the “Special Relationship” with the UK may be a little less special than in the past.
Just wait until the Muzzies fully take over that country and control their nuke arsenal!
If their nuclear arsenal actually belongs to them. I suspect it may be ours and we control the codes. Same with the Israelis.
The UK is quickly becoming YUK.
<chuckles>
Glorious!
Director Ratcliffe, and by extension President Trump, finally having operational control of the CIA…
Making America Great Again, one engorged tick at a time.
Don’t insult ticks, even nasty, engorged ones!
Sounds like he may know where all the bodies are buried….
Good thing he isn’t in a prison in NYC…..
He might get caught up in a bed sheet….
Anyone who has ever hunting anything knows that patience is not only a virtue, but a prime requisite for the task. I wrote about my experiences organisationally clearing out disruptors, and overall bad eggs, for a corporation, and remember well the hundreds of hours of patient planning, observation and recording that was behind each victory, however minor.
SD uses the analogy of the President dancing through minefields and it’s an apposite description, haste, in these situations, leads to excessive casualties and can threaten the entire mission, but a breached minefield can also allow an assault from a direction the enemy least expect. So watch for 2026 to open with reports saying ‘nobody could have predicted this’ the international CYA statement that commentators often use to conceal their mediocrity at predicting events.
Ratcliffe, faithfully, quietly, working behind the scenes. That is encouraging, if true.
if is true… we can only hope..he has been very silent for more than few months…
Interesting. I was just pondering who we should “Maduro” next. Zelensky or da Silva (Brazil)?
I think our immediate neighbor to the south of us is next.
Sheinbaum must be trying to figure to how to distance herself from her political party and by extension the cartels.
Just as corrupt as Maduro, but slightly more plausible deniability at this point.
And like Venezuela, Mexico has a lot of oil to exploit, too!
Watch Columbia in the coming weeks to see how the cartels there try to influence Venesuela.
I’m thinking Thune….
If we are voting, I vote Brazil. Get the Communists out of South America.
Governor of Arizona.
And take the A.G. and Adrian Fontes, too.
And don’t forget Senator Astronaut.
He is already looking at writing his spaced memoirs in a jail cell, “From Space Capsule to Jail Cell, my life enclosed in small spaces”.
Good one!
Yeah, what goes on there bothers me a bunch.
It needs cleaning up, big time.
Agreed! And to see that pompous out-of-control scoundrels’ ass swooped up, with force, and cast into a dark, dirty Brazilian prison would be extremely delightful. Supreme Court Justice Da Silva has been operating way out of bounds for quite some time now (if you haven’t noticed) and karma’s deliverance, or more accurately, real justice is long overdue.
I agree.
Leader of Germany though I can’t recall his name.
he is too tall. hard to quickly get him in to helicopter.
Put him in one of those pontoons – horizontally – and hoist it on the side.
Wouldn’t that be a self resolving problem?
In no particular order, Columbia, Cuba, Mexico via cartels…take you pick.
Let’s not get too carried away.
This was an arrest based on existing indictments issued through legal channels.
I don’t believe any such indictments exist for any other such arrests, as much as we might like to see them happen. I for one would love to see some serious improvement in Brazil, but unfortunately at this point it’s not up to us.
CIA to remove head of security services for Ukraine.
Head of Security Services for Ukraine to retire to CIA funded estate in Monaco.
Our Globalist Nazi enemies never want peace, they want war.
Nazi Nato & their Globalist comrades from the Clinton Admin wanted war in Bosnia, so after all 3 Bosnian factions had signed the Carrington–Cutileiro peace treaty , Clinton Ambassador Warren Zimmermann had a closed door meeting with radical Nazi Islamist Alijia Izetbegovic and after the private meeting Islamist Izetbegovic ripped up the peace treaty proving that the Radical Bosnian Muslims started the war at the behest of the Clinton Admin-Globalists, Nazi Nato all who would go on to become war criminals.
With both Hillary Clinton and John Brennan stating “if Tump can end the Ukraine war he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize ” there is a great possibility third party interference will keep the war going until Trump is out of office.
True, Treeper Oldersoul made a very good point, that if the Nazi Nato induced Ukraine war is ended, the EU Heritage citizens will look to topple their Government traitors that allowed their once Nazarene nations to be invaded and colonized by Muslim & third world invaders who will eventually destroy them all if they are not remigrated. The traitors in government need to go first. No wonder why the jailed LePen, Bardot, Pauline Hanson In Australia, and murdered Haider in Australia.
No one ever wore fake eyelashes more effectively.
She was quite a beauty and I loved her immigration invasion warnings. There is a pattern to public figures speaking out against the Muslim/Immigration Invasion/colonizations and getting jailed,alinsky’d, and assassinated.
Yes she was nice inside and out …true patriot and she love animals……
That’s beautiful! Thank you for posting that!
Slainte SJ.
Ugly ear rings on a beautiful creature with a fine mind.
All this is very ibteresting folliwing the drone attack. Ukraine’s defense leaders prause Malyuk as bringing the right defense pieces together and apparently he doesn’t want to go. The process to remove him supposedly goes through their legislature. Is this move because Malyuk was behind the drone attack. Will Zelenskyy go through the legislature? Does Z have the cards (and stones) to remove him. Will the EU intervene?
Ukraine’s security service head may resign and take up new position | RBC-Ukraine https://share.google/1FRHaQvMzjtF0s1eq
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Given the probability that Dir. Ratcliffe has operational control of previously rogue elements now, there will be no more clandestine assistance to their European counterparts.
The true ending-process of World War Reddit shall commence.
Dan Leahy’s Book Outline:
THE GRAND CHESSBOARD
BY ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI
American Primacy and It’s Geostrategic Imperatives
https://danleahy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/The-Grand-Chessboard-by-Zbigniew-Brzezinski.pdf
“AG: Why were Serbians a US target? And why were Bosnian Muslims favored?
DJ: Well, for one thing, the Clinton Administration and subsequent administrations have had a policy of allying with Muslims all around the world. Partly in a long term anti-Russian strategy which goes back to Zbigniew Brzezinski’s policy of supporting Mujahadeen in Afghanistan. The notion that the soft underbelly of the Russian Empire is Muslim and that they can be used against Orthodox Christians – that’s a long term US strategy going back to Brzezinski’s role in the 1970s.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/16/denying-the-srebrenica-genocide-because-its-not-true-an-interview-with-diana-johnstone/
“The Grand Cheeseboard” – a rat’s opus
PNAC and the NeoCons were not the only ones plotting for a post-ColdWar US global empire. Global Empire was and is a Uniparty project.
Maybe now that the UK has gotten involved in the Syria situation, they will have enough on their plate. Considering Venezuela and Syria, it also appears that Ukraine will be less in the limelight, much to Zelensky’s disappointment.
Don’t doubt that Vicky Nuland, direct descendant of Bolsheviks, still has her hand in the pot somehow. She is determined to complete the mission that Stalin interrupted when he had the useful tools murdered: the capture of Russias vast wealth for their own Trotskyite worldview of continual revolution. And to punish the Christians who stand in the way.
That Malyuk feller has gotten the greasy thug look down to a T.
Little Z better be careful, PDJT may send in the special forces to take him hostage.
OK, but don’t bring him here. Maybe a condo somewhere in the Hindu Kush.
it would take extraordinaire guts ..to take off Sheinbaum or Z…and to not get upset leaders of certain ..tiny…country…
PDJT could send in Ad Rem and take him easily.
So at first, there was doubt as to whether the drone attack even took place on Putin‘s residence. Are we now saying that it definitely did happen?
And is Malyuk being replaced because he participated in said drone attack or because Lil Z is afraid he might cooperate with a Maduro style abduction?
Both..
..john….if you do not know…Russia gave to US military attaché in MOSCOW..data of captured drone….there is proof .
Link please
Perhaps Z better be careful. Seems this guy may have some serious backing.
“One could argue the Venezuela operation is a reflection of Ratcliffe finally getting his arms around [CIA], so to speak.”
Uh … yup. You can’t pull off an operation like Venezuela without a competent, dedicated, clandestine service that completely understands the mission and is fully on board, on the ground gathering real-time human intelligence. And the fact that we have heard nothing at all about them just confirms the quoted statement above. You never saw me, and I was never here.
I suspected from the start that the attack on Putin’s house was carried out by some rogue element within Ukraine. Now we know who it was?
Found it interesting that they knew exactly where and the layout of the place he was staying. Someone had to give/get that information. Chances are more than one visit needed to be achieved. Also, they said no one would get the reward so it probably was someone inside our government and it was probably a CIA agent.
I hope I live long enough to see the movie they’ll make.
The Ukrainian official quoted above praised the performance of the SBU under Malyuk:
“Truth is ‘Hate” to those who hate the truth”
He had Zelensky pegged as a cokehead actor working for some very bad and wealthy people. Dangling Ukraine Nazi Nato membership pulled Orthodox Christian Russia out from helping Syria against the Clean Break war criminals, some whom we were told did 9/11 and who earlier had been US/Nazi Nato allies in Bosnia against the Orthodox Christian Serbs our old friends and allies and Holocaust victims.
“… and who earlier had been US/Nazi Nato allies in Bosnia against the Orthodox Christian Serbs”
Below, a fine picture of the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini and SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen SS Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig, reviewing Bosnian SS volunteers during their training in November 1943:
Always appreciate an assist. Cheers mate
Ay – trembles in the left hand as he was speaking with that fellow who gives me the willies as I sit here far away on a lovely Sunday morning? Is that why Z is kinda holding his left hand down with his right hand? Trying to look cool, in charge of the discussion?
I wonder if Malyuk is working directly for the Brits, and Zelensky realizes that his own security chief is NOT his own?
Malyuk has expertise in directing assasinations, the article says, so perhaps the Brits could use him against Zelensky if he steps out of line.
Maybe Zelensky wants to get out from under the burden of being a puppet and wants to pull the fangs of Malyuk?
I dunno, just spitballin’…
OH so this makes Zelinski the good guy? Almost like Trump, undermined by their own deep states. Poor fellow. WOW – just yesturday the courageous Britons and French bombed a weapons storage in Syria. Let me rethink how I feel about this………. NOPE – still the same. “F” Ukraine, most of Europe and NATO! But I will let trump deal with it as obviously he has way more patience.
“In the past several months it does appear that CIA Director John Ratcliffe has taken operational control of the CIA from the rogue, unchecked apparatus under the executive office. One could argue the Venezuela operation is a reflection of Ratcliffe finally getting his arms around it, so to speak.”
This glimmer of hope is wonderful. If just if the CIA would protect the American People rather than be a rouge Deep State Communist organization. Give the President the truth as they see it with countering arguments not some kind of convoluted adventure and money making scheme.
It looks to me like British intelligence is inadvertently setting the UK up for a major rupture with the US – if in fact Ratcliffe and Gabbard are getting the intelligence community under elected civilian control.
MI6 being behind the attack would also explain the timing of Zaluzhny’s return to Ukraine from Great Britain. MI6 hoping for a retaliatory strike on Zelenskyy by Russia.
Oops, is that the Nazi trident patch on his upper right arm?
Was this the fall guy for the UK using drones on Putin’s villa when Z was in Florida?
I’m guessing Z needed a scalp and this is where he landed since he couldn’t remove Blaise Metrewel.
If the CIA has actually been reigned in then that’s probably the best news to come out so far during this admin.
In the summer of 2008, Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez boasted to his bodyguard, “I’m about to elect the first black president of the United States.” And he did.
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-electorate-isnt-5050-the-real
Incredible must read article by Elizabeth Nickson.
Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife, the attorney general under Hugo Chavez, were extradited from Venezuela to face many charges from a 2020 U.S. Government indictment. Many threads to pull here.
The current Venezuelan VP was tutored by the communist leader of Cuba Fidel Castro.
President Trump is so spot on. We must stop the lucrative drug trade.
What is he going to do with the head? Shrink it and wear it on a cord around his neck??
Again, CTH will also assert the likelihood that Volodymyr Zelenskyy likely didn’t carry out the drone attack against Putin’s residence.
Although the Russians tend to attribute attacks to British intelligence, they’re saying that the evidence they obtained from drones shot down points to the U.S. (CIA?) as being responsible for the attack and that President Putin’s residence was the target. Of course, Ratcliffe denies this claiming the Ukrainians were targeting another location nearby. I don’t see how peace negotiations with the Americans will continue after this.
Ratcliff got control of the CIA? I pray it’s true. And he needs to get them out of Corrupt Ukraine and let it fall.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Ukraine’s top counterintelligence agency is one of the most evil state agencies of all time. Vasyl Malyuk is steeped in its actions as he made his way to the top. He will be one of the richest men in Ukraine.
Since 2014 the SBU has terrorised the Donbas in particular and Russian speakers all over the country in ways that I shudder to think of but which would have made the Gestapo embarrassed. Most SBU locations have dungeons, I use the word carefully, that would have made even Spain’s Inquisitors proud. They were in on the Odessa Trade Union fire, burning alive 42 Russian speakers.
As the number of potential targets fell they shifted roles to be come the organisors of the still active Blockers, the troops whose role is to ensure that no frontline troops successfully retreated, by killing any who attempt to.
Of all the persons in Ukraine that the Russians have been building evidence of serious criminal activity against, most will be in the SBU. Vasyl Malyuk is likely to die under mysterious circumstances.
I write this as someone who has monitored daily the events there since the Maiden in early 2014.