Petro Zyma
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| Петро Зима | |
| Chief of the Security Service of UkraineinSevastopol | |
| In office 12 October 2012[1] – 3 March 2014[2] | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Petro Anatoliyovich Zima (1970-01-18) 18 January 1970 (age 54)[3] Artemivsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, Soviet Union[4] |
| Citizenship | Ukraine (until 2014) Russia (since 2014) |
| Occupation | Security officer of the SBU |
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Colonel Petro Anatoliyvich Zyma[5] (Ukrainian: Петро Анатолійович Зима; born in 18 January 1970), is a government official who served as a chief of the Security Service of UkraineinSevastopol from 2012 until the Russian annexation of Crimea in February 2014.[6][7][8]
On 3 March, he was officially dismissed by acting President Oleksandr Turchynov,[9] thus immediately defecting to Russia, becoming an employee of the Federal Security Service, as of 2015.[10]
Besides being accused of treason, Zyma is under suspicion of involvement in killing civilians during the Euromaidan events in February 2014.[11][7]
He is sanctioned primarily by the European Union,[12] the United States, Canada in 2014, and later by Ukraine in 2021.[13]
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