Honorific-Prefix: | Hero of Ukraine |
Oleh Honchatuk | |
Birthname: | Oleh Mykolaiovych Honcharuk |
Nationality: | Ukrainian |
Allegiance: | Ukraine |
Branch: | Armed Forces of Ukraine |
Battles: | Russo-Ukrainian War |
Rank: | Colonel |
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Oleh Mykolaiovych Honcharuk (Ukrainian: Олег Миколайович Гончарук, born 1983[1]) is a Ukrainian soldier, colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Hero of Ukraine (2022).
As of 2017, he held the position of First Deputy Chief of Staff of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade. As of 2018, he was the acting brigade commander.[2] From 19 November 2019, to 11 September 2022, he was the commander of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade.
Together with the brigade, Honcharuk took part in the Joint Forces Operation in Donbas, in particular in the battles for Stanytsia Luhanska, and in the first months of the full-scale war he held the defense on the eastern and southeastern directions, in particular in Mykolaiv Oblast. Since the end of the summer of 2022, the 128th Brigade participated in the liberation of the Kherson Oblast.