Vitaliy Komarnytskyi

Vitaliy Marianovych Komarnytskyi (; born 15 March 1964) is a Ukrainian jurist, civil engineer, and politician who served as the Head of the Luhansk Military-Civil Administration in 2019.

Early life Komarnytskyi was born into a Ukrainian family in the Nyzhnohirskyi Raion in eastern Crimea. In 1986, he graduated from University of Kharkiv in the field of civil engineering. In 2001, he graduated from the Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs in the field of jurisprudence, and later in 2003 he defended his dissertation and earned the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences. Between 1986 and 2010, he held multiple leading positions within the academic system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Luhansk Oblast in Eastern Ukraine.

Political career In 2010, he was elected as a member of the Luhansk Oblast Council for the Party of Regions, and served as a deputy until its dissolution in 2014, when Russian proxy and regular forces captured and occupied large parts of Eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. During his time as a deputy, he spoke about Slavic unity, and quoted Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's idea of a united Slavic state encompassing Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. For this, in 2014, journalist Denys Kazanskyi called him a "Ukrainophobe" and said that he supported the Luhansk regional council resolutions that appealed to Russia for help.

Personal life Komarnytskyi is married and has two children.