Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Valery Vavrynyuk, first deputy head of the State Border Service of Ukraine, as acting head of the SBU.
The corresponding decree No. 10/2026 of January 4, 2026, was published on the website of the President of Ukraine.
Valery Vavrynyuk was appointed first deputy head of the State Border Guard Service on October 20, 2025, according to his biography on the State Border Guard Service website.
In 2023, he was appointed head of the Western Regional Administration, and in 2019, head of the Eastern Regional Administration of the State Border Guard Service.
Until October 2019, he was appointed to the positions of head of border detachments in the Eastern and Western Regional Administrations and to positions in the Eastern Regional Administration of the State Border Guard Service.
From December 2014 to July 2015, he was deputy head of the regional administration and head of the operational and military department of the Eastern Regional Administration of the State Border Guard Service.
From 2008 to 2014, he held management positions in border guard units in the Northern and Southern Regional Administrations of the State Border Guard Service.
