Ukrainian politician Gennady Moskal died

Gennady Moskal, the former head of the Zakarpattia and Luhansk regional state administrations, died in Ukraine at the age of 74.

It is reported that recently he almost did not appear in public due to a serious oncological disease.

Gennady Moskal was born in the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine. After serving in the Soviet army, he graduated from the Lviv police school under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and got a job in one of the police departments of the city of Chernivtsi. In the law enforcement agencies, Moskal rose to the rank of lieutenant general of the police and the positions of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Crimea and deputy minister of internal affairs of Ukraine.

Gennady Moskal’s political career began in 2001, when he became the chairman of the Zakarpattia OGA. In 2005, he headed the administration of the Luhansk region, but an hour later voluntarily resigned, according to him, because of a conflict with the regional leadership of Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of Regions.

Since 2007, Moskal has twice been elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a deputy: first from the “Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense” bloc, then from the “Batkivshchyna” party, from which he was subsequently expelled – again due to a conflict with the leadership.

After Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the start of hostilities in the Donbass, Moskal was appointed by the then President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, as the chairman of the Luhansk regional military-civil administration. In 2015, Poroshenko redirected Moskal to Transcarpathia, where, according to the president, it was necessary to “urgently restore order.” Moskal worked as the head of Zakarpattia OGA for four years and submitted his resignation in 2019, when Volodymyr Zelensky became the president of Ukraine.

After that, Moskal repeatedly and sharply, often in an obscene form, criticized the activities of Zelensky and his party “Servant of the People”, however, as noted by the Ukrainian service of the BBC, with the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the politician almost stopped his public activities.