{{Short description|Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2023}} '''Igor Aleksandrovich Kornet'''{{efn|{{langx|ru|И́горь Александрович Корнет}}<br/>{{langx|uk|Ігор Олександрович Корнет|Ihor Oleksandrovych Kornet}}}} (born 29 April 1973) is a Ukrainian militiaman, public official and separatist, since 2014 Minister of Interior of the Luhansk People's Republic.<ref name="Kornet7402275">{{cite news |title=Official from occupying administration injured in explosion in Luhansk|url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/05/15/7402275/|work=Ukrainska Pravda|date=15 May 2023|access-date=15 May 2023|language=English}}</ref><ref name="nw">{{cite web|access-date=2017-12-12|date=21 November 2017|language=uk|title=Хто такий Ігор Корнет і що він не поділив з Плотницьким?|url=http://m.nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/events/hto-takij-igor-kornet-i-shcho-vin-ne-podiliv-z-tesljarski-2248061.html|website=Nowoje Wriemia}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
== Biography == Igor Kornet was born on 29 April 1973, in the family of a career officer of the Soviet Army Alexander Kornet.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Кто такой Игорь Корнет и что он не поделил с Плотницким? |url=https://nv.ua/ukraine/events/kto-takoj-igor-kornet-i-chto-on-ne-podelil-s-plotnitskim-2248061.html |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=nv.ua |language=ru}}</ref> In 1989 he graduated from school at the GSVG in Halle (GDR), after which he entered the Poltava Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile Command Red Banner School named after General of the Army Vatutin.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=2017-11-22 |title=Экс-министр внутренних дел ЛНР Игорь Корнет. Досье |url=https://aif.ru/dontknows/file/eks-ministr_vnutrennih_del_lnr_igor_kornet_dose |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=AiF |language=ru}}</ref> In 1993 he entered the service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In 1999, he was dismissed from the post of a policeman of the patrol and guard service of the police of the Oktyabrsky district department of the GUMVD in the Luhansk region.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-11-25 |title=Хто такий Ігор Корнет і що він не поділив з Плотницьким? / Новое Время |url=http://nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/events/hto-takij-igor-kornet-i-shcho-vin-ne-podiliv-z-tesljarski-2248061.html |access-date=2023-03-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171125235507/http://nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/events/hto-takij-igor-kornet-i-shcho-vin-ne-podiliv-z-tesljarski-2248061.html |archive-date=November 25, 2017 }}</ref> Until 2014, he worked as a criminal investigation officer at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Luhansk region.<ref name="Kornet7402275"/><ref name=":5" /> During the hostilities in the Donbass, he fought on the side of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR).<ref name=":0" /> Since 27 August 2014, he is the Minister of the Interior of the LPR.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Плотницкий отстранил от должности главу МВД ЛНР - ТАСС |url=https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/4744111 |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=TASS}}</ref> On 20 November 2017, he was removed from office by the head of the LPR, Igor Plotnitsky, but refused to leave his post, continuing to work as a minister, ignoring orders from the leadership of the LPR and arresting some of its representatives.<ref>{{Cite news |last=КОЦ |first=Александр |date=2017-11-22 |title=Игорь Корнет: "В Луганске выявлены агенты влияния украинских спецслужб" |url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/26761.4/3791607/ |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=kp.ru |language=ru}}</ref> After the resignation from the post of head of the LPR Igor Plotnitsky, Igor Kornet continued to work as the Minister of Internal Affairs of the LPR.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Глава Госбезопаности ЛНР объявил об отставке Плотницкого и своем назначении |url=https://www.mk.ru/politics/2017/11/24/glava-gosbezopanosti-lnr-obyavil-ob-otstavke-plotnickogo-i-svoem-naznachenii.html |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=www.mk.ru |date=November 24, 2017 |language=ru}}</ref> He is wanted in the framework of criminal proceedings under Part 1 of Art. 109 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (actions aimed at violent change or overthrow of the constitutional order or at the seizure of state power).<ref name=":0" /> Since March 2017, the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (GSU ICR) has been investigating the role of Cornet in the murder of Russian citizen Artyom Bulgakov in November 2016.<ref name="Kornet7402275"/><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=На фоні невдач на фронті Москва розпочала "чистки" керівників "ЛНР" |url=https://gur.gov.ua/ua/content/na-foni-nevdach-na-fronti-moskva-rozpochala-chystky-kerivnykiv-lnr.html |access-date=2023-03-10 |website=gur.gov.ua}}</ref>
In April 2023, Radio Free Europe published an alleged audio recording between Head of the Luhansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik and Russian president Vladimir Putin in which Pasichnik states that Kornet had formed an uncontrollable "gang" that had been "terrorising farmers and entrepreneurs."<ref name="Kornet7402275"/> In this conversation Putin is heard promising "to deal with them."<ref name="Kornet7402275"/>
On 15 May 2023 LPR forces reported that Kornet had been wounded in an explosion in a barbershop in Luhansk.<ref name="live/2023/may/15Kornet"/><ref name="Kornet7402275"/><ref>https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1658087536688766977</ref> Leonid Pasechnik wrote on his Telegram channel that Kornet had been one of four seriously wounded and that "Doctors are fighting for the lives of the victims.”<ref name="live/2023/may/15Kornet">{{Cite web |title=Russia-Ukraine war live: Sunak tells Zelenskiy UK will train pilots but supplying fighter jets to Kyiv is not 'straightforward' (update of 4.39 BST) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/may/15/russia-ukraine-war-latest-g7-reportedly-set-to-tighten-russia-sanctions-france-to-send-kyiv-military-aid-live|date=15 May 2023|access-date=15 May 2023|website=The Guardian |language=English}}</ref>
== International sanctions == Due to the support of Russian aggression and the violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine during the Russian-Ukrainian war, he is under personal international sanctions from different countries.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=КОРНЕТ Игорь Александрович – биография, досье, активы {{!}} Война и санкции |url=https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/ru/sanction-person/299/ |access-date=2023-03-12 |website=sanctions.nazk.gov.ua |language=ru}}</ref> (Since April 8, 2022, by all countries of the European Union,<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Подобрий |first=Александр |date=November 24, 2017 |title=Я родилась в Украине, а точнее, в ''ЛНР''! — дочь Корнета |url=https://incident.obozrevatel.com/crime/ya-rodilas-v-ukraine-a-tochnee-v-lnr-doch-korneta.htm |access-date=2023-03-12 |website=OBOZREVATEL INCIDENT |language=ru}}</ref> since 27 May 2022, by the UK,<ref name=":2" /> since 20 June 2017, by the United States of America,<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Дочь министра внутренних дел ЛНР рассказала об отношениях с отцом |url=https://www.rosbalt.ru/world/2017/11/28/1664238.html |access-date=2023-03-12 |website=Росбалт |language=ru}}</ref> since 15 March 2019, by Canada,<ref name=":4" /> since 13 April 2022, by Switzerland,<ref name=":3" /> since October 2, 2020, by Australia,<ref name=":3" /> since 26 February 2022, by Japan.<ref name=":2" />)
== Awards ==
* Order "For Valor" II degree (LPR); * Medal "For Faith and Freedom" (LNR); * Jubilee medal "70 years of Victory" (LNR); * Medal "Battle for Lugansk 2014" (LPR); * Medal "For the Defense of Lugansk" (RKRP).
== Family ==
* '''Natalia Kornet''' (Wife).<ref name=":4" /> ** '''Ksenia Kornet''' (Daughter).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-11-24 |title=Лошади и элитная школа: появились подробности еще об одной дочери Корнета |url=https://incident.obozrevatel.com/crime/doch-korneta.htm |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=OBOZREVATEL INCIDENT |language=ru}}</ref> ** '''Kirill Kornet''' (Son).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Подобрий |first=Александр |date=2017-11-24 |title=Я родилась в Украине, а точнее, в ''ЛНР''! — дочь Корнета |url=https://incident.obozrevatel.com/crime/ya-rodilas-v-ukraine-a-tochnee-v-lnr-doch-korneta.htm |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=OBOZREVATEL INCIDENT |language=ru}}</ref> *** '''Marina Igorevna Kornet''' (Daughter from previous marriage).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Руководство харьковского вуза не видит причин для отчисления дочери главного полицейского ЛНР Корнета |url=https://www.rosbalt.ru/world/2017/11/24/1663446.html |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=Росбалт |language=ru}}</ref>
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