In 2010, Maliar worked at the State Research Institute of Customs Affairs as deputy head of the Department of Legal Issues. From 2013 to 2020, she taught at the National School of Judges of Ukraine in the field of criminal-legal qualification of aggressive war and other crimes committed in war zones. In 2018, she was a trainer of strategic communications units of the
Security Service of Ukraine. Since 2020, she has been a freelance consultant to the (national parliament of Ukraine)
Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence. In the
2020 Kyiv local elections Maliar unsuccessfully tried to be elected into the
Kyiv City Council as a candidate for (
the government party)
Servant of the People. Maliar was appointed to be a deputy
Minister of Defense on , working under Defense Minister
Oleksii Reznikov. This was 7 years after
Russia unilaterally annexed (the
Ukrainian province)
Crimea and 7 years after the start of the
War in Donbas in
Eastern Ukraine. On 24 February 2022, Russia
launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine. During the fourth month of the invasion, Maliar stated that Russia's forces and firepower outsized Ukraine's by about a factor of ten. Around , Maliar stated that it was not necessary to implement
female conscription at the time, and that about 1,000
Ukrainian women had voluntarily mobilized to date. On 14 September 2023 Maliar was criticized for erroneously reporting Ukrainian successes in the
2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive. Maliar was dismissed from her post on 18 September 2023 by the Ukrainian government. She and the five other deputy Defence Ministers were simultaneously dismissed. == Personal life ==