Vasyl Hubal Explained

Vasyl Hubal
Native Name Lang:uk
Office:Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast
Term Start:2014
Term End:2015
Predecessor:Valeriy Lunchenko
Successor:Hennadiy Moskal
Birth Name:Vasyl Ivanovych Hubal
Birth Date:5 June 1967
Birth Place:Lypcha, Khust Raion, Ukrainian SSR
Party:Servant of the People
Non-partisan
People's Party
Alma Mater:Lviv Polytechnic

Vasyl Ivanovych Hubal (Ukrainian: Василь Іванович Губаль) (born 5 June 1967, in Lupcha, Khust Raion, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian politician. In 2014 to 2015, he was a leading figure in a political life of Zakarpattia.

Hubal was born near Khust. After serving in the Soviet Army, in 1988-1992 he worked for several factories around Khust i.e. Khust Factory Technological Equipment and a brick factory of the "Radyanska Ukrayina" kolkhoz (collective farm).

In 2006-2014 Hubal was a member of the Khust Raion council. In 2010-2014 he was its chairman.[1] In 2014-2015 he was a head of the Zakarpattia Oblast State Administration (Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast).[1] When serving as a head of the Zakarpattia Oblast State Administration, Hubal was not able to prevent the 2015 Mukacheve incident, according to the parliamentary investigative committee.[2] In 2014 some sources claimed, Hubal is being associated with the "Viktor Baloha clan".[3]

When on 27 February 2024 the Khust City Council resigned Mayor Volodymyr Kashchuk Hubal was the secretary of the city council, in this capacity he became acting mayor in the absence of an elected mayor.[1] At the time he was a member of the Servant of the People party.[1]

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Predecessor
Valeriy Lunchenko
Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast
2014-2015
Hennadiy Moskal

Notes and References

  1. News: Мера Хуста відправили у відставку. Mayor Khust was sent to resign. February 27, 2024. . February 27, 2024. Ukrainian.
  2. http://trubyna.org.ua/novyny/zbrojnyj-konflikt-v-mukachevo-buv-sprovokovanyj-diyamy-kerivnytstva-umvsu-ta-usbu-v-zakarpatskij-oblasti-tsk/ Armed conflict in Mukacheve was provoked by actions of administrations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and Security Service of Ukraine in Zakarpattia Oblast — Provisional Investigative Committee (Збройний конфлікт в Мукачево був спровокований діями керівництва УМВСУ та УСБУ в Закарпатській області – ТСК)
  3. http://trubyna.org.ua/novyny/hubal-vyyavyvsya-vypadkovym-hubernatorom-zakarpattya/ Hubal turned out to be accidental "governor" of Zakarpattia (Губаль виявився випадковим "губернатором" Закарпаття)