Alexander Vindman

Alexander Vindman and his twin brother Eugene (Yevgeny) were born to a Jewish family in the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. In December 1979, after the death of their mother, their father, Simon (Semyon), brought the twins and their older brother Leonid to New York. They grew up in Brooklyn's "Little Odessa" neighborhood.

Vindman graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1998 with a bachelor of arts degree. He later received a master of arts degree from Harvard University in Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian studies.

After graduating from Binghamton, Vindman joined the United States Army. Commissioned in 1999 as an infantry officer, he served in South Korea and Germany and is a veteran of the war in Iraq; he received a Purple Heart for wounds he suffered there from a roadside bomb.  He was promoted to the rank of Major in 2008 and to Lieutenant Colonel in 2015.

In 2008, Vindman became a foreign area officer specializing in Eurasia. In this capacity he served in the U.S. embassies in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Moscow, Russia. Returning to Washington, D.C. he was then a politico-military affairs officer focused on Russia for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

In 2018, Vindman became Director for European Affairs with the U.S. National Security Council (NSC). He came to national attention in October 2019 when he testified before the United States Congress regarding the Trump–Ukraine scandal.

More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Vindman .