Denys Anatoliyovych Monastyrsky (12 June 1980-18 January 2023) was Interior Minister of Ukraine from 16 July 2021 to 18 January 2023, succeeding Arsen Avakov.
Biography[]
Denys Anatoliyovych Monastyrsky was born in Khmelnytskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union on 12 June 1980, and he started his legal career in 2007 and volunteered as an assistant to People's Front deputy Anton Herashchenko from 2014 to 2019. In 2019, he joined Volodymyr Zelensky's team on law enforcement reform, and he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a Servant of the People candidate. In 2021, he replaced Arsen Avakov as Interior Minister. He died in a helicopter crash in the Kyiv suburb of Brovary in 2023.