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Ivan Bakanov
President Volodmyr Zelenskyy has appointed childhood friend Ivan Bakanov (44) as First Deputy of the SBU (Ukraine's Security Service). With no experience in the intelligence service, law enforcement, or the military, Bakanov is not qualified and ill-suited for this position. He is the head of Zelenskyy's media production company Kvartal-95 LLC (2013), and the head of Zelenskyy's Servant of the People Party (2017). He also ran the Zelenskyy presidential campaign. The Head of Ukraine’s SBU (Vasyl Hrytsak) has commissioned Bakanov with the military equivalent rank of Lieutenant.
Bakanov said that his wife Oksana, although born in Ukraine, received her university education in Russia and has a Russian passport. "Since 1998, she lives and works in Ukraine with a permanent residence permit in our state, and is in the process of registration for Ukrainian citizenship. Oksana has not visited the territory of the Russian Federation since 2013."
Quite frankly, I would never allow someone like Bakanov access to state classified information. But Zelenskyy apparently trusts him to a great degree.
Ivan Bakanov
President Volodmyr Zelenskyy has appointed childhood friend Ivan Bakanov (44) as First Deputy of the SBU (Ukraine's Security Service). With no experience in the intelligence service, law enforcement, or the military, Bakanov is not qualified and ill-suited for this position. He is the head of Zelenskyy's media production company Kvartal-95 LLC (2013), and the head of Zelenskyy's Servant of the People Party (2017). He also ran the Zelenskyy presidential campaign. The Head of Ukraine’s SBU (Vasyl Hrytsak) has commissioned Bakanov with the military equivalent rank of Lieutenant.
Bakanov said that his wife Oksana, although born in Ukraine, received her university education in Russia and has a Russian passport. "Since 1998, she lives and works in Ukraine with a permanent residence permit in our state, and is in the process of registration for Ukrainian citizenship. Oksana has not visited the territory of the Russian Federation since 2013."
Quite frankly, I would never allow someone like Bakanov access to state classified information. But Zelenskyy apparently trusts him to a great degree.