Ivan Aparshin

When Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who became President of Ukraine in April 2019, introduced a team of advisers and assistants to voters, there was no talk of specific positions in the government. Emphasizing that the new government will strive for European innovations, the head of state named the main directions and identified the people who will be engaged in them. Among others, the name of the reserve colonel Ivan Aparshin, who is supposed to develop the armed forces and control the army responsible for national security and the protection of the internal and external borders of the country, was sounded.

Ivan Mikhailovich Aparshin was born on May 25, 1956 in the capital of the GDR, Berlin. Probably, his father was a classified serviceman, and therefore practically nothing is known about the early biography of the future adviser to Vladimir Zelensky on security and defense issues.

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Until 1977, the young man remained a "dark horse", and then his name surfaced in the lists of cadets of the Kiev Higher Combined Arms Command School, where the specialty was listed as "engineer for the maintenance of tracked and wheeled vehicles."

This was not enough to build a successful army career, and in the early 1980s, Ivan entered the Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze Nikolaev Military Academy, which trained officers who held senior administrative and command positions in the armed forces of the USSR.

At the same time, Aparshin entered military service under contract and for 13 years stubbornly moved towards new ranks and posts. Starting with the command of a platoon, company and battalion, the certified officer went up to the chief of the regimental staff, and then got a job in the main military body for planning the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The high command decided that Ivan became a necessary and reliable employee, and sent him to advanced training, where he received a master's degree in military management.

After going through all the stages of the necessary military education, Aparshin, with the rank of colonel, unexpectedly resigned from the armed forces of Ukraine and took the post of legal adviser in the firm of Nikolai Yankovsky "Stiroloptpharmtorg".

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Under the leadership of the new leader, a former member of the Party of Regions and associate of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, Ivan Mikhailovich made the necessary connections and returned to military service in the early 2000s. After taking a post in Anatoly Hrytsenko's office, Aparshin began to build a political and public career and in a short period became head of the strategic planning department, and then took the post of chief inspector of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

The colonel's area of ​​responsibility included issues of army personnel policy and the distribution of forces in accordance with the needs of the state. According to colleagues, Ivan Mikhailovich did not cope with the task and constantly demanded to increase the already rather big budget. True, under the new Defense Minister Yuri Yekhanurov, Aparshin “settled down” and began to criticize the army for unnecessary spending and misuse of funds.

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Thus, maneuvering between constantly changing leaders, the colonel was able to hold out for a decade in the national department of defense and security, and only the coup d'état of 2014 expelled him from his habitual cabinet.

Aparshin had to turn up old ties, and shortly before the elections to the Verkhovna Rada, he joined the Civil Position party, created by former patron Anatoly Gritsenko. Having received the status of a candidate for people's deputies, Ivan Mikhailovich tried to get a seat in the government of Petro Poroshenko, but he was outstripped by the appointed Minister of Defense Stepan Poltorak.

Until 2018, citizens of Ukrainian nationality did not hear about any of Aparshin's activities, but with the start of the 2019 presidential campaign, he again appeared on the political arena behind the back of candidate Anatoly Gritsenko. Then the contender for the post of head of state directly stated that he trusts the colonel and, if he wins, will include him in the government of Ukraine.

However, in the first round, the former Minister of Defense did not receive the required number of votes, and Aparshin, as an expert in the field of military policy and defense, was “leased” to the team of the more successful candidate Vladimir Zelensky.

The news leaked to the Ukrainian press and greatly surprised the colonel's former colleagues and co-workers. In interviews with online publications, many of them said that Ivan Mikhailovich does not have the necessary qualities to manage any of the top government departments, he does not know how to make tough decisions that the country needs at the moment.

In response to criticism, Aparshin, whom Zelenskiy assigned the role of security and defense adviser, said that he plans to reorganize the Ukrainian army and raise salaries for the military transferred to a voluntary contract basis. The colonel called the sale of "unnecessary" resources of the Ministry of Defense, including the land on which municipal and private facilities are located, as the main way to achieve this goal.

Very little is known about the personal life of adviser Vladimir Zelensky. Official sources do not mention the family and family ties of the colonel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at all.

However, after journalists not subject to politics conducted a thorough investigation, information about Aparshin's wife Lyudmila, nee Lukyanova, appeared on the Internet.

Until 2014, a woman who received 2 higher educations and worked at OJSC KB Expobank actively used the Odnoklassniki social network and posted photos from her trips abroad. In these pictures, the couple are depicted together in minutes of solitude from their son and grandson.

After Volodymyr Zelenskyy won the presidential elections in Ukraine, adviser Aparshin began to actively give interviews and promote his own ideas in the media.

Now, in anticipation of a new appointment, the military politician continues to make policy statements and give out sometimes unrealistic promises. Striving to take the post of defense minister as soon as possible, Ivan Mikhailovich intends to accelerate the bringing of the army to NATO standards and excludes the possibility of negotiations with Russia and the leaders of the LPR and DPR.

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