Official: Yevhen Khmara to temporarily perform duties of SBU head

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Yevhen Khmara as the acting Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, UNN reports.

To Yevhenii Leonidovych Khmara, Head of the Special Operations Center "A" of the Security Service of Ukraine, to temporarily perform the duties of the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine

What is known about Yevhen Khmara

Yevhenii Leonidovych Khmara is an experienced special forces officer who served in the SBU's Special Operations Center "A" since 2011, and in 2023 was appointed head of "Alpha."

At the beginning of Russia's full-scale aggression, Major General Yevhen Khmara participated in the liberation of Kyiv Oblast, and after the de-occupation of the capital region, he fought against the Rashists in Donetsk Oblast.

The SBU's Special Operations Center "A" consistently ranks among the top three most effective units of the Defense Forces in terms of destroyed enemy equipment and personnel using drones. In total, the CSO "A" has accounted for over $5.5 billion worth of "minus-ed" enemy equipment: tanks, combat vehicles, air defense systems, electronic warfare systems, and other equipment. And this is without taking into account the losses resulting from the SBU's "Spiderweb" special operation, in which CSO "A" drone operators directly participated and effectively destroyed enemy equipment.

As of January 1, 2026, since the beginning of the full-scale war, the SBU has hit 2,194 Russian tanks, 1,805 of which were accounted for by the CSO "Alpha" alone. In addition, "A" special forces also hit 3,267 armored combat vehicles, 3,468 artillery systems, 540 air defense systems, 454 electronic warfare systems, and other enemy equipment and personnel.

In addition, SBU CSO "A" fighters conduct unique special operations to strike military targets deep in the Russian rear - airfields, warehouses and arsenals of weapons, oil refineries, factories for the production of KABs and drones, and work on other significant targets.

Major General Yevhen Khmara has been awarded a number of departmental and state awards. Among them, for personal courage and self-sacrifice shown in the defense of state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, loyalty to the Ukrainian people and military oath, he was honored to be a full cavalier of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (I-III degree), and also awarded the Order "For Courage" III degree and the President of Ukraine's award "Cross of Military Merit."

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As reported by Dmytro Lytvyn, advisor to the President of Ukraine, the duties of the head of the Security Service of Ukraine will be temporarily performed by the head of the Special Operations Center "A" Yevhen Khmara.

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