2025 in Review: How the SBU ‘Gifted’ the Occupier Some Surprises

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Results of 2025: the gifts the SBU delivered to the occupier over the year—and the three biggest “packages”: the “Web” on June 1; the third strike on the Crimean Bridge, which destroyed its supports, on June 3; and the destruction of the Kalibr submarine carrier “Varshavyanka” with the new Sub Sea Baby on December 15.

• Strikes by advanced Sea Baby platforms on tankers of Russia’s shadow fleet and on oil production platforms in the Caspian Sea.

• A 30% reduction in oil exports as a result of systematic strikes on oil refineries, transportation infrastructure, and gas processing facilities.

• Strikes on the enemy’s energy generation infrastructure — forcing them to experience what it is like.

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• The Alpha Central Command kept pumping out hundreds of billions for each campaign (by 2025, a few billion have already been reclaimed from the enemy’s “treasures” at tens of millions per unit) — covering radio surveillance, air defense, enemy radar systems, warehouses of drones and missiles, aircraft of all kinds, and military production. Actually, a bureaucrat’s dream budget.

• And of course, the SBU spent the year systematically turning “Lapti” drones (those charmingly primitive Russian DIY flying slippers) into scrap metal on an industrial scale. The Central Subdivision “A” consistently ranks among the top three unmanned units in the defense forces — basically, the nightmare of every Russian tinkerer.

As you can see, the occupiers have been stuffed with “gifts” up to their ears — and yet they still can’t get enough. “At this moment, the entire Ramenskoye suburb and surrounding areas—home to an estimated 100,000 to 600,000 Lapti drones—are plunged into blackout, officially ‘for unknown technical reasons,’ but in reality, after every single drone was shot down.”

Альтернатива з більш гострим, саркастичним тоном:

“Right now, the entire Ramenskoye suburb and its surroundings—where some 100,000 to 600,000 Lapti drones once roamed—sit in total blackout, supposedly ‘due to technical issues,’ but really, because every last drone was shot out of the sky.”

Overall, in 2025, Malyuk’s SBU played a system-forming role within the Defense Forces and became one of the key instruments of Russia’s strategic deterrence. Moreover, the SBU acted not only as a special service but also as an institution of strategic importance.

The efforts of its units—at sea and on land, at the front and deep behind enemy lines, against military equipment and the occupier’s economic potential—have become one of the defining arguments in Ukraine’s work with its allies. By convincing them (and especially such a difficult partner as the USA) that cooperation with Ukraine is both possible and necessary, we gain the strength and inspiration to fight fiercely against Putin’s army, no matter its size or how many trillions of rubles he invests in the “SVO.”

So, the mountain of gifts under their Christmas tree, “from the SBU, with the most sincere wishes,” was among the largest. (And who can doubt that these wishes are sincere? After all, we all know what these wishes are, because we share the same ones.)

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