Zelensky dismissed Kondratyuk, who headed the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine for more than a year. Earlier, at the request of the president, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Avakov also left his post
Alexander Litvinenko
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Valery Kondratyuk from the post of head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (SVR), the press service of the head of state reported.
Alexander Litvinenko, who previously headed the National Institute for Strategic Studies (NISI), was appointed to this post.
Litvinenko is 49 years old. In 1994, he graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Communications and Computer Science of the FSB Academy with a degree in “applied mathematics”. In 2009, Litvinenko defended his degree in “jurisprudence” at the Kiev National University. Taras Shevchenko, and four years later he graduated from the Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) in the UK, follows from his official biography on the NISI website.
During the presidency of Petro Poroshenko (2014 & ndash;2019) Litvinenko was the Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine. In August 2019, Zelensky appointed him director of the NISI. In 2010–2014, Litvinenko was the deputy director of the Institute.
Litvinenko also worked at various times in the Security Service of Ukraine, was an adviser to the director of the Institute of National Security Problems of the NSDC and the General director of Ukroboronprom.
Zelensky appointed Kondratyuk as the head of the SVR in June 2020. Under Poroshenko, he was the deputy head of the presidential administration. Kondratyuk also worked in diplomatic positions, including being the military attache of Ukraine to the United States, headed the Department of the central office of the SBU. In 2014-2016, he held the post of head of the Counterintelligence Department of the SBU, from August 2016 to October 2017, he headed the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense.
Last week, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov resigned. He published his statement in social networks, signing it ” I have the honor!». Avakov headed the department in 2014, and there were several protests in Ukraine demanding his dismissal.
As explained in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Avakov resigned from his post at the request of Zelensky. According to the deputy of the party “Servant of the People” Irina Vereshchuk, the president had “questions”to the minister in the case of the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet. “You remember that he openly said about this, that if there is no evidence, we willmake decisions. Perhaps this was the last straw, ” she suggested.
In place of Avakov, the president proposed the head of the Rada Committee on law enforcement Denis Monastyrsky. The Verkhovna Rada approved his candidacy.Instagram Live broadcasts and instant news on our Instagram