From January 2004 to September 2006 he was a Deputy Director of the Department for Security and Disarmament Affairs of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Since September 2006, he has been the head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks on military security and arms control.

Analyst Olga Lautman commented on the removal: "The Chekist war criminal apologized for admitting that Russian military targets are Ukrainians.

"[3] Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President's Office in Ukraine, noted that the call for genocide of the Ukrainian people is unacceptable.

[5] On June 19, 2022 Ulyanov responded on Twitter to a member of the pro-Ukrainian online movement NAFO, saying: "You pronounced this nonsense.