Oleksandr Pavliuk

Oleksandr Pavliuk
Oleksandr Pavliuk
Олександр Павлюк
	Pavliuk in 2021
Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 11 February 2024
President	Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime Minister	Denys Shmyhal
Preceded by	Oleksandr Syrskyi
First Deputy Minister of Defense
	In office; 14 February 2023 – 10 February 2024
President	Volodymyr Zelensky
Prime Minister	Denys Shmyhal
Governor of Kyiv Oblast
	In office; 15 March 2022 – 21 May 2022
President	Volodymyr Zelensky
Preceded by	Oleksiy Kuleba
Succeeded by	Oleksiy Kuleba
Personal details
Born	Oleksandr Oleksiiovych Pavliuk; 20 August 1970 (age 53); Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Ukrainian
Military career
Allegiance	Ukraine
Years of service	1991–present
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands held	Ukrainian Peacekeeping forces in Kosovo; Operational Command West; Commander, training of the Land Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; Commander, Joint Forces; Kyiv Regional Military Administration;
Battles/wars	Peacekeeping operations in Kosovo; Russo-Ukrainian War; Kyiv offensive (2022);
Awards	Hero of Ukraine; Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky II class; Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky III class;

Oleksandr Oleksiiovych Pavliuk (Ukrainian: Олександр Олексійович Павлюк; born 20 August 1970) is a Ukrainian general^[6] serving as commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces since 11 February 2024.^[7] He was a participant in the war in Donbas and the Ukrainian defense against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[2] On 14 February 2023 he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Defense.^[8]

From 15 March 2022 until 21 May 2022 Pavliuk was head (Governor) of Kyiv Oblast State Administration.^[9]

^ ПАВЛЮК Олександр Олексійович [PAVLIUK Oleksandr Oleksiiovych] (in Ukrainian). 19 March 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "The JF Commander Oleksandr Pavliuk: When we put our flags at the border, this will be a victory". USCC. 2 November 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Zelensky appoints Pavliuk as Kyiv regional administration head, Moskaliov as JFO commander". Interfax-Ukraine. 15 March 2015. Archived from the original on 15 March 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
^ УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №107/2022 [DECISION OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE No. 107/2022] (in Ukrainian). 3 March 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
^ УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №538/2016 [DECISION OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE No. 538/2016] (in Ukrainian). 2 December 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
^ Савченко, О. В. (2023-07-08). Павлюк Олександр Олексійович (in Ukrainian). Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України. ISBN 978-966-02-2074-4.
^ "Zelensky appoints 4 new high-level military commanders". The Kyiv Independent. 11 February 2024. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
^ Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers appoints First Deputy Minister of Defence, Ukrainska Pravda (14 February 2023)
^ Cite error: The named reference Pavliuk7347639 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).