Ivan Vyhivskyi | |||||||||||
Native Name Lang: | uk | ||||||||||
Office: | Chief of the National Police of Ukraine | ||||||||||
Term Start: | 14 July 2023 | ||||||||||
President: | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | ||||||||||
Primeminister: | Denys Shmyhal | ||||||||||
Predecessor: | Ihor Klymenko | ||||||||||
Birth Date: | 26 March 1980 | ||||||||||
Birth Place: | Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||
Alma Mater: | National Academy of Internal Affairs | ||||||||||
Nationality: | Ukrainian | ||||||||||
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Ivan Mykhailovych Vyhivskyi (; born 26 March 1980) is a Ukrainian police general serving as the chief of the National Police of Ukraine since 14 July 2023[1] (acting since 20 January 2023). He became the acting head of the National Police of Ukraine after the then-holder of the post, Ihor Klymenko, became the minister of internal affairs succeeding Denys Monastyrsky following his death in a helicopter crash.[2] [3] From 11 August 2021 he was the chief of police for Kyiv.[4]
Vyhivskyi was born on 20 March 1980 in Zhytomyr oblast, Soviet Ukraine. He graduated from National Academy of Internal Affairs in 2003. From 1999 to 2016 he served on different positions in police in the city of Ochakiv.[4]