Valery Heletej

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Valery Heletej (2014)
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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Валерій Вікторович Гелетей
Transl. : Valerij Viktorovyč Heletej
Transcr. : Valery Viktorovych Heletej

Valery Viktorovych Heletej (born August 28, 1967 in Verkhny Koropez , Transcarpathian Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian officer and politician.

In 2008 Heletej was promoted to Colonel General. On July 3, 2014, he became the third defense minister in the first Yatsenyuk cabinet, succeeding Mychajlo Kowal . On October 14, 2014 he was replaced in this position by Stepan Poltorak . Between July 5 and October 27, 2014, as Minister of Defense, he was a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine . On October 15, 2014, Heletej was appointed head of the Ukrainian State Security ( Управління державної охорони України ) by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko .

Heletej is married and has two sons.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Welle website from July 3, 2014
  2. ^ Dismissal of Valery Heletej by the Verkhovna Rada on October 14, 2014; accessed on June 25, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Valery Heletej on the website of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine ( memento of October 12, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ); accessed on June 25, 2016 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Heletej, Valery
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heletej, Valery Viktorovych (full name); Гелетей, Валерій Вікторович (Ukrainian); Heletej Valerij Viktorovyč (transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Verkhniy Koropez , Zakarpattia Oblast , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic