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Place of Birth: Vyzhhiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine
About Oleksandr Skipalsky
- Oleksandr Skipalsky is a Ukrainian military officer and spy.
- For over 20 years he worked as a Soviet border guard and military counterintelligence. Skipalsky was born on March 12, 1945 in a village of Vyzhhiv (today in Liuboml Raion).
- Born in the Western Ukraine, he was growing up in Yenakieve (Eastern Ukraine) where he finished a high school and vocational college. In 1968 Skipalsky graduated the Moscow Border Guard military college, after which he served for the border guard troops in Ukraine.
- In 1975 Skipalsky graduated the KGB Higher School and served as a counterintelligence agent in the Russian Far East (Siberia and Kuril islands). In 1987 Skipalsky returned to Ukraine where he served in special divisions of KGB.
- In October 1990 Skipalsky was excluded out of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- In 1990-92 he worked for the agricultural bank "Ukraine". In 1992-97 Skipalsky was the head of Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine where along with Mykola Kuzmin, he organized practically a completely new intelligence agency on an empty spot.
- During that time Skipalsky also was elected the People's Deputy of Ukraine. In 1997-2004 Skipalsky worked as a deputy chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine, a deputy minister of Emergencies, an adviser to the minister of Justice.
- In 2004 he headed the security service of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko. In 2006-07 Skipalsky was a chief of the regional office of Security Service of Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast.
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