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Viktor Nikoliuk | |
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| Native name | Віктор Дмитрович Ніколюк |
| Birth name | Viktor Dmytrovych Nikoliuk |
| Born | (1975-10-19)19 October 1975 (age 50) |
| Allegiance |  Ukraine(from 1996) (21 years) |
| Commands |  169th Training Centre (Ukraine) |
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Viktor Nikoliuk (Ukrainian: Віктор Дмитрович Ніколюк; born October 19, 1975,Kirovohrad Oblast) is aMajor General who serves as commander ofOperational Command North.[1]
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He was born on 19 October 1975 in Kirovohrad Oblast. In 1996 he graduated from Kharkiv Guards High Command Armoured Warfare school, and in 2007, theNational Defense University of Ukraine. He later commanded the92nd Mechanised Brigade.
In August 2014 the brigade's units were involved in an attempt to relieveencircled 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 ofShchastia in Luhansk region (sector "A"), soldiers of the 92nd brigade led by Nikoliuk captured soldiers of the 3rd Special Brigade Special Assignment GRU of the Russian Federation Alexander Aleksandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev. (SeeBattle with Russian Spetsnaz near Shchastia [uk] for details.) During the battle, a Ukrainian soldier, Junior 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. Nikoliuk was awardedOrder of Bohdan Khmelnytsky of III degree.[2]
On November 3, 2015, Russian-separatist forces opened fire on the base of the 92nd Brigade in the area of the settlementTrokhizbenka, and Nikoliuk was wounded.
On 2016 Viktor Nikoliuk 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 the investigators and to recognize the illegal decision of the investigator to conduct a search in the military unit В6250.
During theRusso-Ukrainian War, Nikoliuk ledOperational Command North incombat near Chernihiv from February–April 2022, and later commanded the Ukrainian troops which defeated a Russian battalion tactical groupattempting to cross the Siverskyi Donets River nearBilohorivka, Luhansk Oblast in May 2022.[3]
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