Serhiy Bessarab

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Serhiy Bessarab
Сергій Бессараб
Бессараб Сергій Борисович.jpg
Minister for Veterans Affairs
In office
4 March 2020 – 16 December 2020
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded bysplit from Minister of Occupied Territories, IDPs, and veterans
Succeeded by[1]
Personal details
Born
Serhiy Borysovych Bessarab

(1955-11-13) 13 November 1955 (age 66)
(historic Kodak), Dnipropetrovsk Raion, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyIndependent
EducationKyiv Suvorov Military School
Kyiv Higher Combined-Arms Command School
Moscow Military Academy
National Defense University of Ukraine

Serhiy Borysovych Bessarab (Ukrainian: Сергій Борисович Бессараб; born 13 November 1955) is a Soviet and Ukrainian military serviceman, lieutenant general.[2] He served as a troop commander of the Territorial Directorate "North" (2005–2007), the First Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces (2012–2015), and the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (2015–2020). On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Minister for Veterans Affairs of Ukraine in the Shmyhal Government.[2] He resigned due to ill health on 16 December 2020.[3]

Biography[]

Back at time of the Soviet Union, in 1977 Bessarab graduated from Kyiv Higher Combined-Arms Command School and in 1990 M. V. Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. Later in 2002 he also graduated from National Defense University of Ukraine.


References[]

  1. ^ Laputina appointed as Ukraine’s minister for veterans afffairs, Ukrinform (18 December 2020)
  2. ^ a b "Who's who in Ukraine's new Cabinet of Ministers". Kyiv Post. March 4, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  3. ^ (in Ukrainian) The council fired the veterans' minister, Ukrayinska Pravda (16 December 2020)

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