Vadym Anatoliyovych Troyan (; born 12 September 1979) is a Ukrainian former government official and military leader. He was the

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for the

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from 2014 to 2021, and formerly the deputy commander of the

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with the rank of colonel.

Biography

Troyan was born on 12 September 1979 in a village Orilka,

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. In 2000 he graduated in law from

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. Until 2003 he served as an investigator at the Lozova district police station in Kharkiv Oblast. Since the beginning of the military operation in the Eastern region of Ukraine he defended the independence and the territorial integrity of

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as deputy commander of the

, a far right all-volunteer infantry military unit which is accused of supporting neo-Nazi ideology. He has been awarded the

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of the 3rd degree, as well as the personal award weapon and extraordinary special ranks. The Mariupol City Council has awarded him the title "Honorary citizen of Mariupol". May 2014 – September 2014 – the deputy battalion commander of "Azov" at the Ministry of Interior of Ukraine in the Kyiv region. In November 2014 he was appointed to the post of police chief of the

by Minister of the Interior

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, a move that was strongly criticized by Ukraine's chief rabbi Yaakov Bleich, the

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and the

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; these groups, however, recognized that there is no specific evidence pointing to anti-Semitic views on the part of Troyan. Troyan denied connections to far-right ideologies. He is one of the first officers who supports and works at the process of reforming of the Ministry of Interior. He has conducted the drastic personnel reform at the Police Department in the Kyiv region. He has released the District police departments` leaders who personally took part at the process of execution of criminal orders given by the government of Yanukovych. He has expressed the full mistrust to the leading staff of the Department for Economic Crimes` Combating of the Main Department, putting them on retention. With the purpose to study the situation in the region he holds "VECHE" – the joint meetings of the local authorities, NGOs, activists, police officers in the districts. These events gave the opportunity to set up an open dialogue between the Ministry of Interior and the public. Within the frameworks of the law enforcement bodies' reform he is taking an active part in the creation of a new police force. Thanks to an introduced experiment on the district police departments in Vasylkiv and Obukhiv districts of the Kyiv region reorganization he brought the public service of the patrol service to a new level. The competitive recruitment into the police force was one of the first in Ukraine announced in the district town of Boryspil. The new software has been developed in order to quickly respond to reports of citizens. The received information is being transferred to a system of a single line for all the districts. He has initiated the creation of a single regional line - 102. On 16 November 2016 Troyan was appointed

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Chief of the

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. On 8 February 2017 Troyan was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of the Interior by the

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. He was dismissed from this position on 6 September 2019 by the new

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. In November 2021 Troyan resigned from his position as Deputy Head of the National Police of Ukraine and was later dismissed from his other positions by the new Minister of the Interior Denys Monastyrsky.

Controversies

The

has accused Troyan of being a leading member of the neo-Nazi organizations

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and Social-National Assembly, both of which expound far-right and racist positions. ''

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'' was not able to confirm such accusation, only confirming that he was a member of the People's Front, a mainstream centre-right political party led by

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. Speaking to the ''

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'', Troyan denied having connections to far-right organizations. On 8 October 2016, Troyan published an opinion-article in the Ukrainian newspaper ''

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and

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coming from

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and

Donbas The Donbas (, ; ) or Donbass ( ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. The majority of the Donbas is occupied by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The word ''Donbas'' is a portmanteau formed fr ...

was one of the causes of the increase of crime in those areas. The article received criticism from the

, who accused Troyan of "unfairly blaming people forced to flee their homes because of Russia’s invasion of Crimea and military conflict in Donbas".

References

External links

Biography at Ukrainian Interior Ministry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Troyan, Vadym 1979 births Living people People from Brovary Ukrainian colonels Ukrainian police officers Ukrainian nationalists Ukrainian military personnel of the war in Donbas Recipients of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class