The government appointed Andrei Danik as temporary acting head of the State Emergency Service. Representative in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnichuk reported this on Telegram.

“Danik Andrey Nikolaevich has been temporarily entrusted with the duties of the chairman of the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations,” the message says..

Andrey Danik was born on October 26, 1978 in Kropyvnytskyi (formerly Kirovograd). He graduated from the Cherkasy Institute of Fire Safety named after. Heroes of Chernobyl Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. There Danik received a specialty in fire safety, qualification - fire safety engineer.

Since July 1998, Danik was the chief of guard of the 79th independent state fire department of Starobeshevo of the state fire department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Donetsk region. From January of the following year until December 2003, he worked in various positions at the 79th independent state fire department of the city.. Starobeshevo State Administration of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine in Donetsk region.

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In December 2004, he took the position of head of the state fire supervision service for servicing rural areas of the Starobeshevsky district department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine in the Donetsk region. In November of next year, Danik became the head of the Starobeshevsky district department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine in the Donetsk region.

In May 2012, he headed the civil protection department in the Starobeshevsky district. In July of the same year, he became the head of the 17th state fire and rescue squad of the Main Terrestrial Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk region.

Since May 2013, Danik was at the disposal of the head of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Donetsk region, and since June he became the head of the Starobeshevsky district department of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Donetsk region.

In January 2015, Danik headed the Special Purpose Rescue Squad of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Donetsk region. In August of the same year, he was appointed deputy head of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service in the Donetsk region.

From January 2020 to September 2023, he served as head of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Cherkasy region.

Andrey Danik was awarded:.

Honors from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine “For courage in an emergency”, II degree (2005);

honorary badge of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine (2009);

badge “Badge of Honor” (2014);

badge “For courage in an emergency” (2015);

Order \;

Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, III degree (2017);

medal “For the Defense of Avdeevka” (2017);

commemorative medal “For the Defense of Mariupol” (2017);

Honors from the President of Ukraine “For participation in the anti-terrorist operation” (2017);

Honors from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (2018);

badge “For Distinction in Service” (2018);

Award of the Commander of the Joint Forces “For Victory and Loyalty” (2019);

honor of the commander of the joint forces "

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In August last year, Sergei Kruk was fired from the post of head of the State Emergency Service. The government made this decision based on the results of an internal audit of the State Emergency Service.

The check began after the State Emergency Service helicopter crashed on January 18, 2023 in Brovary, Kyiv region - it fell on a kindergarten. There were nine people on board, including the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: Minister Denis Monastyrsky, First Deputy Evgeny Enin and Secretary of State of the department Yuri Lubkovich. They all died. In total, 14 bodies died at the scene of the fall, including one child..

In August of the same year, five State Emergency Service officials were informed of suspicion of violating flight safety rules in the case of a plane crash on January 18 in Brovary. We are talking about the head of the Aviation Directorate and Aviation Search and Rescue, and. unit commander, deputy commander for flight training and aviation squadron commander, whom the court sent into custody, as well as the head of the flight safety service of the Special Aviation Detachment ORS CS, who was sent under round-the-clock house arrest.