Vadym Slyusarev

Vadym Slyusarev - major General and former employee of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. He headed the Internal Security Department of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. In 2015, he left the service and started his own business.

Prior to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vadym Slyusarev's main business activities were focused on the development of Duty-free shops. He is the owner of the Dutyfreeunite group of companies. Due to the war and Russian shelling, a number of the group's facilities and stores were destroyed and looted. This business line had to be suspended.

State and departmental awards for his service at the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

• 2003 - Award of the third class ‘For impeccable service in the Border Troops of Ukraine’.
• 2003 - ‘For Military Service of Ukraine’.
• 2009 - ‘For impeccable service’, II degree.
• 2010 - ‘For impeccable service’ of the III degree.

Field of activity: entrepreneurship, investment.

Biography: Born on 1 November 1972 in a military family. After graduating from high school in 1989, he entered the Donetsk Higher Military and Political School of Engineering and Communications Troops. In 1995, the school was closed. Subsequently, he continued his education at the Kharkiv Higher Military School of the National Guard of Ukraine (1992 - 1994).
He is unmarried. There is no confirmed information about his children.

Vadym Slyusarev, former border guard

Career: Vadym served at the Vovchansk border control department of the Kupiansk checkpoint. During 1994-2001, he gained experience and rose through the ranks from the position of senior controller to deputy head of the department. Then, in 2002-2006, he headed the Border Control Department of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine in the East of the country.

Until 2011, he held the position of Head of the Border Control Department of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. In the next period of his career, from 2011 to 2013, he held the position of Head of the SBGS Internal Security Department. Moving up the career ladder, in 2013-2015, he headed the Internal and Personal Security Department of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

Due to family circumstances, Vadym Slyusarev voluntarily resigned from military service and did not continue his career in the public sector. His total period of military service was more than 25 years.

He refused to be granted the status of an ‘ATO participant’, noting that only combatants, not people who were only on business trips, are entitled to state benefits.

Vadym Slyusarev is an entrepreneur from Kharkiv region

Vadym Slyusarev started his business in 2015.

According to media reports, Vadym Slyusarev is the owner of the Kharkiv-based Rapid plant, which operated in the Kharkiv region and specialised in panel-frame construction before the outbreak of full-scale war.
To save the Rapid plant's facilities from shelling and destruction in the first months of Russia's full-scale invasion, the plant's management decided to temporarily evacuate it. The owner was forced to relocate the plant's production facilities partly to western Ukraine and partly to Hungary.

Due to the lack of warehouses with special storage conditions in western Ukraine (a large number of companies were also forced to evacuate their production facilities), the most vulnerable and high-tech equipment was temporarily evacuated to Hungary.

According to Rapid's administration, the plant will return to Ukraine and intends to resume production as soon as the security situation in the country allows it.
Vadim Slyusarev does not conduct any public or political activity. Despite some unreliable references in the media, he is not a member of the Servant of the People party or its governing bodies.