Wladimir Ogryzko

Date of Birth: 01.04.1956

Wladimir Stanislavovych Ogryzko - Ukrainian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2007-2009). Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine (1996).

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Kyiv. In 1978, graduated with a degree in International Relations as a translator-referent (German) from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Candidate of Historical Sciences.

Career. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (initially of the USSR, then - of independent Ukraine) since 1978. Ogryzko's first position in the Ministry was press attaché, which he received immediately after graduating from the university. This was followed by military service in the Soviet Army, positions as Third and Second Secretary of the Press Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, advisor to the chief advisor, advisor of the Department of Political Analysis and Coordination of the post-Soviet Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 1992, Ogryzko was awarded the diplomatic rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine. From 1992 to 1996, he served as advisor and envoy at the embassies of Ukraine in Germany and Austria. In the following three years, he headed the Foreign Policy Department, the Main Department for Foreign Policy Issues of the Presidential Office of Ukraine.

From 1999 to 2004 - Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Austria and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to international organizations in Vienna. Another year - Ambassador for Special Assignments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Since February 2005 - First Deputy Foreign Minister under Boris Tarasyuk.

On December 18, 2007, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in the Yulia Tymoshenko government. On March 3, 2009, he was dismissed by Parliament at the initiative of the government (allegedly due to discrediting the latter on the international stage).

On March 17, 2009, he was appointed by President Yushchenko as the first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Raisa Bohatyriova. He resigned from his post along with Yushchenko's resignation in February 2010.

In September 2010, he joined the Our Ukraine party. In July 2012, he resigned from his duties as a member of the Presidium and deputy chairman of the Political Council of the party and ended his membership in it.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he decided to run as a deputy of Ukraine on the URK Sobor list.

Views. On February 18 2014, during the Euromaidan Wladimir Ogryzko made an open 'appeal to the leaders of Europe and the USA, who are still able to act'. He accused the governments of Western countries of a passive policy of inaction and 'non-interference' in the crimes of the Yanukovych regime against its own people. He also recalled the significant historical 'silence' during the famine of 1932-1933, World War II, and the 'promises' of the political leadership of Ukraine from Western states at the end of the 1980s, 'to remain in' the Soviet Union. He also warned Western leaders against subjecting Ukraine to Moscow. In this case, events in Ukraine could develop into a tougher and bloodier war than the war in former Yugoslavia.

Family. The diplomat is married, he has one son and two daughters.

01.11.2024