Ihor Oleksandrovych Voronchenko ( ua, Воронченко Ігор Олександрович; born 22 August 1964) is a Ukrainian Vice Admiral and a former

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of the

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.Poroshenko appointed the commander of the Navy

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(3 July 2016)Zelensky taps Rear Admiral Neizhpapa to command Ukraine's Navy (Photo)

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(11 June 2020) Before becoming commander of the Ukrainian Navy, Voronchenko held the staff position in General Staff, the position of chief of the Coastal Defense Administration (Ukrainian Navy), and was a commander of a former

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regiment that was later transformed into a battalion of

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. Voronchenko served in

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starting in 1998.

Career

Voronchenko was born 22 August 1964 in the village of Babai in

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.Igor Voronchenko on February 23 - a feast for real men!
KP (23 February 2011) After graduation from the

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Voronchenko was assigned to

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where he was commander of a tank platoon until 1988. Voronchenko then became a commander of a tank company in the

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. After the

collapse of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

he returned to

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and continued service in the

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine. Then he graduated from the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Starting in 1998, he served in Crimea on the post of commander of a

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regiment. And then became Crimea's chief of the Coastal Defense Administration of the

. During the February/March

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Voronchenko was captured and detained for 4 days in

before being released on 27 March 2014.Ukrainian soldiers released from detention in Crimea

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(27 March 2014)General Ihor Voronchenko: Bolotov, Pushilin, Gubarev - they are all pawns in this game

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(12 August 2014) Voronchenko was appointed acting

of the

on 25 April 2016. And on 3 July 2016

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Petro Poroshenko Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko ser ...

appointed him as commander of the Ukrainian Navy.Poroshenko appoints Commander of Naval Forces of Ukraine

(3 July 2016)
The same day Voronchenko was conferred the rank of Vice Admiral (on 25 April 2016 he held the rank of

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). On 11 June 2020 President

Volodymyr Zelensky Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

appointed

Oleksiy Neizhpapa Oleksiy Leonidovych Neizhpapa ( uk, Олексій Леонідович Неїжпапа; born 9 October 1975) is a Ukrainian vice admiral. He is Commander of the Naval Forces of the Ukrainian Navy The Military Naval Forces of the Armed Forces ...

as commander of the Ukrainian Navy.

References

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