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Native of Dnipro who helped hold Russia accountable: what is known about Yevhen Yenin, killed in Brovary
On the morning of 18 January, Ukraine was shaken by another tragic report. In Brovary a helicopter crashed into a kindergarten, causing a fire.
The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was killed: Minister Denys Monastyrsky, First Deputy Minister Yevhen Yenin, and State Secretary Yurii Lubkovych. Among the dead are children who were in the kindergarten at the time of the crash.
Yevhen Yenin held the position of Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs from 6 September 2021 and served as Ukraine’s agent in international courts on cases related to Russia’s aggression. He was a highly qualified diplomat and lawyer, having served as deputy foreign minister, deputy attorney general, and minister-counselor at the Ukrainian embassy in Italy.
Biography of Yevhen Yenin
Yevhen Yenin was born on 19 November 1980 in the city of Dnipro. He was educated at the National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). He graduated with honors in the specialty of "jurisprudence." He then served in officer positions in operational units of the SBU and the Foreign Intelligence Service.
Yevhen Yenin defended a dissertation on "Ensuring Ukraine’s national interests in the process of resolving the Transnistrian conflict." He earned the academic degree of Candidate of Political Sciences in the specialty "Foundations of the state’s national security."
He continued his studies at the Ukrainian State University of Finance and International Trade in the Faculty of Jurisprudence and International Relations, where in 2012 he obtained the qualification of international lawyer.
Career in public service
Yenin began his professional career in 2005. Until 2010 he served as third and second secretary at the Embassy of Ukraine in Moldova.
Later he was second secretary of the sector for Transnistrian settlement at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
From July to October 2010 Yenin was second secretary of the Department for Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the Sixth Territorial Department of the MFA. He also served as second and first secretary of the Far East countries department.
From 2011 to 2012 Yenin acted as head of the Second Eastern European Department of the Fourth Territorial Department of the MFA and as head of the Black Sea Countries Department in the Directorate for Southern Europe, the Balkans and the South Caucasus of the Third Territorial Department of the MFA.
He participated in the negotiation process with Moldova on resolving issues of demarcation, mutual recognition of property, and environmental matters.
In 2012–2016 he was counselor and minister-counselor at the Embassy of Ukraine in Italy.
From 7 June 2016 to April 2019 Yenin served as Deputy Prosecutor General. He specialized in issues of international cooperation in criminal proceedings and coordinated cooperation with the International Criminal Court.
In 2019–2020, while serving as deputy executive director of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future and as an external consultant to the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Law Enforcement, Yenin took part in drafting a number of bills.
He coauthored the book "Conflicts That Changed the World."
From 2020 he worked as deputy to Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, and from 6 September 2021 Yevhen Yenin became First Deputy to Denys Monastyrsky.
International courts against Russia
On 21 May 2020 the president authorized Yevhen Yenin to act as agent in Ukraine’s cases against the Russian Federation. The cases concerned Russia’s violations of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, as well as arbitration courts.
For the International Tribunal at the United Nations a memorandum was prepared regarding evidentiary materials about Russia’s violations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
In addition, Yenin handled cases related to the downing of flight MH17 and Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752. He also helped facilitate the operation to return Ukrainian women and their children from Syria in December 2020.
Yenin’s family
Yevhen Yenin is survived by his wife and two children.
In his last post in his Facebook page, Yenin expressed condolences regarding the tragedy on 14 January in his native Dnipro.
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