Colonel Petro Anatoliyvich Zymahttps://myrotvorets.center/criminal/zima-petr-anatolevich-2/ (Ukrainian: Петро Анатолійович Зима; born on 18 January 1970), is a government official who served as a chief of the Security Service of Ukraine in Sevastopol from 2012 until the Russian annexation of Crimea in February 2014.Nalyvaichenko considers Aksyonov and Zyma involved in mass killings in Kyiv (Наливайченко вважає Аксьонова та Зиму причетними до масових вбивств в Києві). Espreso TV. 12 March 2014Turchynov fired the chief of SBU in Sevastopol (Турчинов зняв керівника СБУ в Севастополі). Ukrayinska Pravda.

On 3 March, he was officially dismissed by acting President Oleksandr Turchynov, thus immediately defecting to Russia, becoming an employee of the Federal Security Service, as of 2015.

Besides being accused of treason, Zyma is under suspicion of involvement in killing civilians during the Euromaidan events in February 2014.Petro Zyma at Myrotvorets

Sanctions

He is sanctioned primarily by the European Union, the United States, Canada in 2014, and later by Ukraine in 2021.

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