Serhiy Bessarab

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Borysovych and the family name is Bessarab.

Serhiy Bessarab
Сергій Бессараб
Bessarab in 2018
Minister of Veterans Affairs
In office
4 March 2020 – 16 December 2020
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterDenys Shmyhal
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byYulia Laputina[1]
Personal details
Born (1955-11-13) 13 November 1955 (age 69)
Stari Kodaky, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
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, IPA: [serˈɦij bɔˈrɪsɔʋet͡ʃ besːɐˈrab]; born 13 November 1955) is a Soviet and Ukrainian 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

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

Since May 2012 - First Deputy Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.[4]

Since 2015, he has been the commander of the ATO. According to volunteer Vitaliy Deynega, the new commander forbade Ukrainian soldiers in the ATO zone to respond to militants' artillery attacks with artillery fire.[5]

From March 4 to December 15, 2020, he was the Minister of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine.[6]

References

  1. ^ Laputina appointed as Ukraine’s minister for veterans affairs, Ukrinform (18 December 2020)
  2. ^ a b "Who's who in Ukraine's new Cabinet of Ministers". Kyiv Post. 4 March 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  3. ^ (in Ukrainian) The council fired the veterans' minister, Ukrayinska Pravda (16 December 2020)
  4. ^ "У керівництві ЗСУ та Сухопутних військ ЗС України відбулися кадрові перестановки". Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  5. ^ 26.05.16 17:53 «Новий командувач АТО Бессараб забороняє українським військовослужбовцям стріляти з артилерії у відповідь на обстріли бойовиків», — волонтер Дейнега
  6. ^ "Міністри екології та ветеранів подали у відставку". РБК-Україна (in Russian). Archived from the original on 15 December 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.


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