Zelensky fires Danilov: Lytvynenko becomes NSDC secretary
26 March 2024 16:55
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Oleksiy Danilov from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council and appointed Oleksandr Lytvynenko, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SZR), to replace him. This is stated in the relevant decrees on the president’s website, Komersant ukrainskyi 
reports.
“To dismiss Danilov Oleksiy Myacheslavovich from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine,”
– reads the text of the decree.
In his next decree, the president appointed Oleksandr Lytvynenko as the NSDC secretary.
It should be noted that Danilov had been the NSDC Secretary since 3 October 2019.
Lytvynenko became the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service on 23 July 2021. Prior to that, from 4 April 2014 to 13 August 2019, he was Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council.
What is known about Oleksandr Lytvynenko
Oleksandr Lytvynenko is a Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine. He holds the rank of Major General.
He was born on 27 April 1972 in Kyiv.
In 2013, he graduated from the Royal College of Defence Science (RCDS), UK; in 2009, he graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a degree in law; in 1994, he graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Communications and Informatics of the Academy of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation with a degree in applied mathematics (he passed the lustration check in 2015)
Labour activity:
- 08.1994 – 08.1998 – officer, senior officer, chief specialist of the Main Department of Government Communications of the Security Service of Ukraine
- 08.1998 – 05.2005 – Senior Consultant, Head of Department, Deputy Director – Head of Department, First Deputy Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies
- (concurrently: Assistant, Associate Professor, Professor of the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1998-2007, 2010-2014)
- 06.2005 – 12.2007 – Head of the Department, Expert Commission, Department of State Security of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
- 12.2007 – 08.2009 – Deputy Head of the Department of Information and Analytical Support of the Security Service of Ukraine
- 08.2009 – 05.2010 – Advisor to the Director of the Institute of National Security Problems at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
- 06.2010 – 03.2014 – Deputy Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies
- 05.04.2014 – 13.08.2019 – Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine
- 13.08.2019 – 23.07.2021 – Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies
- Since 23.07.2021 – Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine
Awards:
He was awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V Class, and the President of Ukraine’s decoration – the 25th Anniversary Medal of Independence of Ukraine.
