Alexander Fomin | |
|---|---|
Александр Фомин | |
 Official portrait, 2017 | |
| Deputy Minister of Defence | |
| Assumed office 31 January 2017[1] | |
| President | Vladimir Putin |
| Minister | Sergey Shoygu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 25, 1959 Leninogorsk, East Kazakhstan Region, Kazakh SSR, USSR (now Ridder, Kazakhstan) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union (1977–1991)  Russia (1991–present) |
| Branch/service | .svg){kind=small} Armed Forces of the Russian Federation |
| Years of service | 1977 — 1993 |
| Rank | Colonel General[2] |
Alexander Vasilyevich Fomin (Russian: Александр Васильевич Фомин, born May 25, 1959) is the Russian Deputy Minister of Defence.
Alexander Fomin was born on May 25, 1959, in Leninogorsk. He attended the Military Institute of the Red Banner of the Ministry of Defence (Now the Military University of the Russian Defence Ministry), graduating in 1984.[3]
Fomin was promoted to Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation in 2017.[3][1]
In February 2018, Fomin was promoted to the rank of Colonel General.[4]
In March 2021, he visited Myanmar in his capacity as a military attaché and expressed Russia's commitment to maintain friendly relations with the country.[5]
In 2022, Fomin was appointed as the representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense at the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine aimed at resolving the ongoing crisis between the two countries.[6]
As a result of his support for Russian aggression and violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Fomin is subject to personal international sanctions from several countries. Australia imposed sanctions on him in February 2022, while the United Kingdom and New Zealand followed suit in March. In October 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a decree imposing sanctions on Fomin.[7]