Victor Nikolyuk

Nikolyuk Victor Dmitrovich (born in Oct. 24, 1975, Kirovohrad Oblast) - Ukrainian military commander of Ukrainian Armed Forces, ATO commander (since 2017), Lieutenant-General. Late Commandant of 169th Training Centre (from March 2017), before that - commander of 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade.

Victor Nikolyuk
Native name
Ніколюк Віктор Дмитрович
Birth nameNikolyuk Victor Dmitrovich
Born(1975-10-24)24 October 1975
Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Allegiance Ukraine (from 1996) (21 years)
Commands held 169th Training Centre (Ukraine)
Battles/warsWar in Donbass

Information

Was born on 19 October 1975 in Kirovograd region. In 1996 he graduated Kharkiv Guards High Command of Armoured warfare school, in 2007 National Defense University of Ukraine.

In August 2014 the brigade's units were involved in an attempt to relieve encircled forces near Ilovaisk. The column stopped in the field for a night and shortly after it was hit by heavy artillery shelling.

On May 16 2015, near of Shchastya in Luhansk region (sector "A"), soldiers of the 92nd brigade led by Nikoluk captured soldiers of 3rd special brigade Special Assignment GRU of the Russian Federation Alexander Aleksandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev. (See Battle with Russian Spetsnaz by Shchastya for details.) During the battle, a Ukrainian soldier, a younger Sergeant Vadim Pugachev, died. The detainees were citizens of Russia, servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation. On March 29 2015, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko decorated the participants in the detention of Russian special forces received military . Colonel Viktor Nikoluk was awarded Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky of III degree.[1]

On November 3 2015, Russian-separatisr forces opened fire at the base of the 92nd UBRD in the area of the settlement Trokhizbenka, and Colonel Viktor Nikolyuk was wounded.

On 2016 Viktor Nikolyuk filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Prosecutor's Office in order to compensate for the non-pecuniary damage which, in his opinion, was caused to him by the military prosecutor's office of the ATO forces in the person of one of her investigators, and to recognize the illegal decision of the investigator to conduct a search in the military unit В6250

See also
  • Mikhaylo Zabrodsky

Sources

References
  1. Глава держави нагородив військовослужбовців, що затримали російських диверсантів під Щастям (retrieved January 22, 2018)
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