Vladimir Saldo

Vladimir Saldo
Владимир Сальдо
Володимир Сальдо
Saldo in 2023
Governor of Kherson Oblast
(Russian-installed)
disputed with Oleksandr Prokudin
Assumed office
4 October 2022
Preceded byHennadiy Lahuta
Head of the Kherson Military-Civilian Administration
In office
26 April 2022  4 October 2022
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Himself as governor
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
12 December 2012  27 November 2014
ConstituencyParty of Regions, No. 182
Mayor of Kherson
In office
2014–2015
Preceded byZoya Berezhna
Succeeded byVolodymyr Mykolayenko
In office
2002–2012
Preceded byMykola Ordynskyy
Succeeded byZoya Berezhna
Personal details
Born (1956-06-12) 12 June 1956
Zhovtneve, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(Now Bohoyavlensk, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine)
NationalityRussian
Political party
Children1
Alma materKryvyi Rih Mining Institute
Signature

Vladimir Vasilyevich Saldo (Russian: Владимир Васильевич Сальдо, Ukrainian: Володимир Васильович Сальдо, romanized: Volodymyr Vasylovych Saldo; born 12 June 1956) is a Ukrainian and Russian politician serving as the acting collaborationist governor of the annexed Kherson Oblast since 4 October 2022. A member of the ruling United Russia, he previously served as the head of the Russian-installed Kherson military-civilian administration from 26 April to 4 October 2022.

Prior to the invasion, Saldo served three terms as mayor of Kherson from 2002 to 2012, and later as a People's Deputy in the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2014, representing the pro-Russian Party of Regions.

On 2 October 2024 Saldo announced the forced conscription of Ukrainians living in occupied Kherson oblast into the Russian military. A journalist with the Kyiv Independent said that this constituted a war crime under Article 51 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.