Mykola Balan

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Mykola Balan
Birth name	Mykola Ivanovych Balan
Born	(1968-12-12) December 12, 1968 (age 53) Staryi Lysets, Tysmenytsia Raion, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Soviet Union  Ukraine
Service/branch	Internal Troops of Ukraine National Guard of Ukraine
Years of service	1992–present
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	National Guard of Ukraine Crimean territorial command

Mykola Ivanovych Balan (Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Балан) is a Ukrainian military official, Lieutenant General, a commander of the National Guard of Ukraine.

Biography[]

Balan is a native of western Ukraine who in 1992 graduated the Saratov Higher Military Command School of the Red Banner of Feliks Dzerzhinsky of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union. In 2003 he also graduated the Khmelnytskyi National Academy of the Border Troops of Ukraine. Balan graduated with honors from the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.

In 2010 was appointed as a chief officer of the Crimean territorial command of the Internal Troops of Ukraine.^[1]

Since 2014 he became among the leading commanding officers as a deputy commander of the newly revived National Guard in place of Internal Troops.^[1]

On 14 June 2019 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Mykola Balan commander of the National Guard of Ukraine.^[1] Balan resigned as commander of the National Guard of Ukraine due to a shooting involving servicemen in Dnipro, Ukraine.^[2] He was officially dismissed by President Zelensky on 27 January 2022.^[3]

Decorations[]

• Order of Merit, 2nd degree (24 March 2017) – for personal courage and high professionalism discovered in defense of state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, exemplary execution of military duty^[4]
• Order of Merit, 3rd degree (23 March 2012) – for a significant personal contribution in strengthening the rule of law and order, the fight against crime, exemplary performance of official duty, high professionalism and on the occasion of the Day of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine^[5]

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