Serhiy Borysovych Bessarab ( uk, Сергій Борисович Бессараб; born 13 November 1955) is a Soviet and Ukrainian

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. He served as a troop commander of the Territorial Directorate "North" (2005–2007), the First Deputy Commander of the

Ukrainian Ground Forces The Ukrainian Ground Forces ( uk, Сухопу́тні військá Збрóйних сил Украї́ни), also known as the Ukrainian Army, are the Army, land forces of Ukraine and one of the five Military branch, branches of the Armed For ...

(2012–2015), and the Deputy Chief of the

General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ( uk, Генеральний штаб Збройних сил України) is the military staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is the central organ of the Armed Forces Administration and ov ...

(2015–2020). On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Minister for Veterans Affairs of Ukraine in the Shmyhal Government. He resigned due to ill health on 16 December 2020.The council fired the veterans' minister

Ukrayinska Pravda ''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...

(16 December 2020)

Biography

In 1977, Bessarab graduated from Kyiv Higher Combined-Arms Command School, and in 1990 graduated from the M. V. Frunze Military Academy in

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

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Serhiy Bessarab

Government of Ukraine The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ( uk, Кабінет Міністрів України, translit=Kabinet Ministriv Ukrainy; shortened to CabMin), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine ( uk, Уряд України, ''Uriad Ukrai ...

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