Petro Zyma
Ukrainian government official
About Petro Zyma
Born 1970.
Colonel Petro Anatoliyvich Zyma (Ukrainian: Петро Анатолійович Зима; born on 18 January 1970), is a government official who served as a chief of the Security Service of Ukraine in Sevastopol from 2012 until the Russian annexation of Crimea in February 2014.
On 3 March, he was officially dismissed by acting President Oleksandr Turchynov, thus immediately defecting to Russia, becoming an employee of the Federal Security Service, as of 2015.
Besides being accused of treason, Zyma is under suspicion of involvement in killing civilians during the Euromaidan events in February 2014. the United States, Canada in 2014, and later by Ukraine in 2021.
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Ukrainian government official
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Petro Zyma was born in 1970.
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