On Thursday, August 5, it became known about the death of the former Prime Minister of Ukraine and the first head of the Security Service (SBU) Evgeny Kirillovich Marchuk. The statesman’s heart stopped.
The man was 80 years old. She shared tragic news in Facebook his wife is a journalist and social and cultural activist Larisa Ivshina.
“Black day … EK died … Heart stopped,” she wrote shortly.
–What is known about Evgeny Marchuk
He was born on January 28, 1941 in the village of Dolinovka, Gaivoronsky district, Odessa region (now it is Kirovograd region). He worked in the State Security Committee (KGB) of the Ukrainian SSR. And after the proclamation of Ukraine’s independence, he became the first head of the Security Service.
He was twice a people’s deputy. In 1995 he became prime minister and headed the Ukrainian government until May 1996.
In 1999, he was appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), in 2003-2004 Marchuk was the Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
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He had the rank of General of the Army of Ukraine. Since 2015, he was one of the members of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) in Donbass, from November 2018 to May 2019, Evgeny Kirillovich headed the delegation.
As reported OBOZREVATEL:
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