Mykola Balan

Mykola Ivanovych Balan () is a Ukrainian military official, Lieutenant General, a commander of the National Guard of Ukraine.
Biography.
Balan is a native of western Ukraine who in 1992 graduated the Saratov Higher Military Command School of the Red Banner of Feliks Dzerzhinsky of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union. In 2003 he also graduated the Khmelnytskyi National Academy of the Border Troops of Ukraine. Balan graduated with honors from the National Academy for Public Administration under the President of Ukraine.
In 2010 was appointed as a chief officer of the Crimean territorial command of the Internal Troops of Ukraine.
Since 2014 he became among the leading commanding officers as a deputy commander of the newly revived National Guard in place of Internal Troops.
On 14 June 2019 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Mykola Balan commander of the National Guard of Ukraine.