Vlad Kuznetsov

"My little Anya is always bugging me to stop me from smoking. She has that from her mother."
Vlad Kuznetsov is a character in "Crisis Management" who works as a mercenary in the PMC "Velocity HS". He is good friends with Ethan and is the head of a special, yet small department called the Police Support Team (PST). Together with his colleagues there, he assists Bluelu's police forces in their fight against Pretty Blood. Therefore, he and his team members are unaware of Velocity's secret illegal activities. He operates under the callsign "Architect".
==Biography==
This is Vlad, a member and the leader of Velocity's Police Support Team. He takes part in operations, assisting the police, should the help be requested. 
Vlad himself is a rather chatty person who likes talking about his past time in the Varstovkan military. He can also be a rather smug goofball at times and doesn't seem that much afraid of dying. Vlad is very good friends with Ethan, Rook, Dimitri, Rose and Henry, due to knowing them since his time in the Varstovkan Armed Forces during the Great Continental War. He's described as an overall friendly and very likable person, but also as highly determined to get a task done if provided.
Vlad was born in the capital city of the Varstovkan Federation, Bliný, where he had also attended school. During his school-time, he had met a girl named Taneya who played the violin and, being very interested in her musical talent, became close friends with her. When he graduated, Vlad joined the Varstovkan Law Enforcement and worked there as a policeman for a couple of years. He had also married Taneya during that time. Eventually, he transferred to the "Komanda Vysokogo Riska" (KVR), a special force in the Varstovkan police which focused mainly on counter-terrorism and major operations (basically the Varstovkan equivalent of the Hunlinian TCU). He earned himself quite a reputation there, when he had managed to single-handedly raid the hideout of a feared Varstovkan underground organization called "Krovavaya Roza" and successfully arrested their leader. That was also the time when Vlad became a father, now with him and his wife Taneya being the parents of their son Kristoff. A few additioal years later, Vlad and Taneya had another child, their daughter Anya. In the following time, Vlad continued to work as a well-respected KVR operator until Varstovka's involvement in the Great Continental War. 
When the war reached the Varstovkan Federation, Vlad enlisted himself into the military to aid at the front. He was known to be an excellent fighter, and earned quite a few medals there. However, during that time, his wife Taneya became extremely sick and had to be moved to live in the ICU of a hospital, so Vlad often requested a few days off to see her. Sadly, she soon succumbed to her illness, leaving Vlad as a single father for their son Kristoff and daughter Anya, whom he both really cares for, as he promised his dying wife to do his very best to look out for them. Vlad was also known for his emphatic way of handling prisoners and surrendering enemies, always looking out for them and treating them like friends. One day, he and his team got into a heavy firefight with attacking Hunlinian troops. After an exhausting battle, they managed to repel the aggressors and even managed to shoot down Ethan Winters, who was a fighter pilot of the Hunlinian Royal Airforce. Vlad and his team secured the crashsite, and found Ethan injured, but alive, so they took him as a prisoner. Although being from opposing sides, Vlad still befriended him and frequently spent time conversing with him in the Varstovkan P.O.W camps, often criticizing the war, much to the fierce disapproval of his supervisors. But the bond of the two grew strong regardless. One night however, Ethan took his chance and escaped from confinement by triggering the camp's base alarm and sneaking his way out amidst the resulting chaos, which of course left Vlad a bit disappointed, but still, kind of understanding. He approved it very much that Ethan decided to not use any deadly force when breaking out. Eight months after that, Vlad and his team were deployed close to the Jollyingtian Border, having had the task to push through and occupy an enemy airbase. While doing so, they were greeted by a whole bunch of Hunlinian and Jollyingtian special forces who were a step ahead of them, resulting in a fierce firefight. Eventually, Vlad's team got too overwhelmed, and they've surrendered. When Hunlinian soldiers closed in to take them as prisoners, their leader then ordered his soldiers to halt. It was none other than Vlad's old friend Ethan Winters. As Ethan recognized that it was Vlad who was kneeling in front of him with his hands up, he immediately ordered his squad to withdraw their weapons. Instead of taking Vlad and Co. as prisoners, Ethan decided to invite them for lunch, before letting them go back. This of course left Vlad and his team pretty baffled when they returned to their base, and eventually, they've decided to lay down their guns and desert from the Varstovkan Armed Forces. After a while, Vlad and his friends who followed him, teamed up with Ethan and Co. who all sought to put an end to the war by neutralizing the remaining main aggressors from every side involved. For that, they've formed a special task force named "International Taskforce" (InT), with members who were all soldiers from all over Culuno, seeking to end the war and restore peace. After lots of chaotic, and extremely dangerous covert missions led by InT-Aerial-Wing Commander Ethan Winters, InT-Infantry-Wing Commander Vlad Kuznetsov and InT-Naval-Wing Commander Chapper Hicks, with the goal of creating political stability between Varstovka and the allied forces, this eventually led to Hunliny, Varstovka, Texocania and Jollyington to form an alliance, to cease Yox' aggressions together, ending the war with the invasion of Yoxel and a peace treaty for all involved.
When the war came to an end, Vlad received an offer to join the Hunlinian PMC "Velocity HS". He agreed and therefore emigrated to Hunliny together with his two kids, with whom he's now living together with in Bluelu. Vlad is not aware of Velocity's illegal activities. In fact, Velocity formed a special department called the "Police Support Team" which seeks to aid the Hunlinian police forces, just so they can cover up their actual intentions. When Vlad joined, he quickly became the leader of said department, due to his military record. Like every member of the PST and also of the Internal Security Department, Vlad is made to believe that Velocity seeks to fight Pretty Blood, and doesn't know anything about VC's underground departments and activities.
==Trivia==
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[[Category:Members of Velocity's Police Support Team]
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