Poroshenko decides who to appoint as Ukraine's new border chief
ODESSA. Oct 23 (Interfax) - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko is planning to appoint Viktor Nazarenko as the head of the State Border Guard Service, who is currently holding this position temporarily.
"Today I intend to sign a decree regarding your appointment as the head of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service," the president told Nazarenko at a meeting which focused on anti-counterfeiting efforts in Odessa on Thursday.
Poroshenko hopes that the combat experience of the new chief of the agency will help him in his work to provide security on the Ukrainian national border and fighting smuggling schemes that exist today.
It was reported that on October 6 the Ukrainian president sacked Mykola Lytvyn as the head of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service. On the same day, he sacked Lytvyn's deputy Pavlo Shisholin, who also served as the director of the National Border Security Department and replaced him with Nazarenko, who is currently the acting head of the border agency.
After graduating from the Lviv High Military School in 1977 and from the Mikhail Frunze Military Academy in 1986, Nazarenko served in border guard troops, first as the head of the Lviv Border Guard Detachment and eventually becoming the first deputy head of Ukraine's Border Guard Service. Under Lytvyn's leadership, he served as the First Deputy Director of the National Border Security Department in the administration of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service (2004 - 2014).