A serious blow to the security of Ukraine

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The death of the Interior leadership and its minister, a politician accustomed to traveling to war zones, forces a rapid restructuring of a ministry on which the police and various units at the front depend.

The plane crash that claimed the lives of Interior Minister Denis Monastirski and his closest associates is a huge blow to the Ukrainian war machine. In addition to being the highest-ranking member of the government to die since the invasion began, Monastirski, 42, commanded a key area and enormous complexity as he is in charge of the National Guard and National Police. The first is a force that was created at the time as a reserve and counterinsurgency whose units fight on the front lines. Among them was the Azov battalion, captured during the defense of the Azovstal steel plant. The National Police, in turn, is charged with maintaining order in the cities (it has been very active in tracking down ‘infiltrators’ and Russian collaborators), but also has the heavy task of investigating war crimes committed. by the invading army to transfer the results to the international court.

The death of the ministry’s leadership is now forcing President Volodimir Zelensky to act quickly. Hence the urgent appointment of an interim deputy for the minister. “In times of war it is impossible to keep a weak flank,” an analyst says in the local press today and even more so in this case where the Executive had no ‘plan B’: she never thought of a response strategy in light of the coincidence that their main ministerial heads lost their lives at the same time. The minister, but also the state secretary and the state secretary, piled up an enormous number of tasks. Kiev cannot now afford to withdraw from law enforcement or place part of the country’s security system in a vacuum of orders. Monastirski and Zelensky were good friends. They broke up daily. There’s a photo of the two reunited on Tuesday.

Born on July 12, 1980 in Khmelnitsky, a graduate of the local university law faculty with a doctorate in the same field, the late minister began his professional career in 2007. He headed the legislative and experiential scientist department at his university, where he worked as an associate professor. He was also a co-founder and member of the board of directors of the Podolia Youth Cultural Association ‘Towards the future through culture’.

His political life began when he became a voluntary assistant adviser to MP Anton Herashchenko between 2014 and 2019. During the run-up to the presidential election, Monastirski was considered an expert on legal reform in the team of then-candidate Volodimir Zelensky. He then began to look at the young adviser’s political possibilities.

On May 20, 2019, when Zelensky won the election and assumed the head of government of Ukraine, Monastitsky became the candidate of the Servant of the People party for parliament. He got his seat thanks to strong support, as he was considered the politician with the best legislative ideas. He was later promoted to the directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs after the resignation of Arsen Avakov in July 2021. Avakov left his post due to political and public pressure over a rare series of complaints of police abuse, although official sources have later stated that these correcting version that said Zelensky was the one who fired him. He has led the ministry since 2014 and is considered one of the most powerful politicians in the country.

Monastirski has closely followed the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Just before the invasion, he was in charge of the frontier troops who skirmished with the Russians on the Donbas Gorge and supervised the exercises of the Kremlin army. He always went to the front, talked to the troops and on one occasion was said to have been nearly wounded by a Russian shell near the border. He and his team often traveled to the “hot” areas, as happened this Wednesday before they lost their lives. Firm in his condemnation of crimes against humanity committed by the invaders against civilians, he promoted coordination between the police and the prosecution in investigating massacres such as those in Bucha and Mariúpol. He was also part of the commission responsible for demining the country.

Together with him, two other relevant figures in Ukrainian politics were killed in the plane crash: the Prime Minister, Evgeni Yenin, and the Secretary of State, Yuriy Lubkovich. Jenin rose from deputy foreign minister to first deputy during Monastirsky’s tenure. During his stay at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he strengthened relations between Ukraine and Latin American countries such as Cuba and Guatemala. He served as Deputy Attorney General prosecuting public officials’ cases related to corruption, a position he resigned in 2019. As a member of the Ministry, he was in charge of the reform of the National Police, the State Migration Service and the Emergency Service.

Source: La Verdad

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