Petro Ivanovych Shulyak ( uk, Петро Іванович Шуляк; born 29 March 1945, in Korshiv,

Zdolbuniv Raion Zdolbuniv Raion ( uk, Здолбунівський район) was a raion in Rivne Oblast in western Ukraine. Its capital (political), administrative center was the town of Zdolbuniv. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Rivn ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

) is a member of the Ukrainian military, Colonel General who served as the Chief of General Staff and Commander of the

Ukrainian Ground Forces The Ukrainian Ground Forces ( uk, Сухопу́тні військá Збрóйних сил Украї́ни), also known as the Ukrainian Army, are the land forces of Ukraine and one of the five branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They ...

. Native of Ukraine, on 30 January 1992 Shulyak was dismissed from his post of chief of cadres (personnel) administration of the

Baltic Military District The Baltic Military District () was a military district of the Soviet armed forces in the Baltic states, formed briefly before the German invasion during the World War II. After end of the war the Kaliningrad Oblast was added to the District's con ...

for expressing his interest in joining

Ukrainian Armed Forces , imports = , exports = , history = , ranks = Military ranks of Ukraine , country=Ukraine The Armed Forces of Ukraine ( uk, Збро́йні си́ли Украї́ни), most commonly know ...

as the "alien army".Andriy Myronchuk.
The Life dedicated to the Fatherland (Життя, присвячене Батьківщині)
'. Viysko Ukrayiny magazine. 3 April 2015 Following the incident, Minister of Defence of Ukraine Kostiantyn Morozov offered him position of commander of the 13th Army located in

Carpathian Military District The Red Banner Carpathian Military District (, ) was a military district of the Soviet Armed Forces during the Cold War and subsequently of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the early Post-Soviet period. It was established on 3 May 1946 on the ...

based in

Rivne Rivne (; uk, Рівне ),) also known as Rovno (Russian: Ровно; Polish: Równe; Yiddish: ראָוונע), is a city in western Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Rivne Oblast (province), as well as the surrounding Rivne Raio ...

, native region of Shulyak. Soon thereafter Shulyak was placed in charge of

. As a commander of the district he played important role in formation, training and deployment of the Ukrainian peacekeeping military formations to

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

and

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. Due to dissolution of the Soviet Union and financial crisis that followed, the district had difficult times to pay salary to military personnel and provide them with adequate housing, but was able to overcome it with help of local government. The Carpathian Military District became one of the first that joined the NATO program

Partnership for Peace The Partnership for Peace (PfP; french: Partenariat pour la paix) is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) program aimed at creating trust between the member states of NATO and other states mostly in Europe, including post-Soviet state ...

. As part of the program in 1995 near

Yavoriv Yavoriv ( uk, Яворів, ; pl, Jaworów; yi, יאַוואָראָוו , translit=Yavorov; german: Jaworiw) is a city in the Lviv region of western Ukraine which is around 15 kilometers from the Polish border. It is the administrative centre ...

was conducted joined United States – Ukraine military exercise. Six years later Shulyak as a Commander of the

turned the Yavoriv field training site into a special Partnership for Peace training center. As part of international cooperation, Shulyak also was involved to creation of the Polish–Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion, the idea for which appeared soon after the visit of Polish general Zenon Brik to Carpathian Military District. Due to the 2002

Sknyliv air show disaster The Sknyliv air show disaster occurred on Saturday, 27 July 2002, when a Ukrainian Air Force Sukhoi Su-27 piloted by Volodymyr Toponar (of the Ukrainian Falcons) and co-piloted by Yuriy Yegorov crashed during an aerobatics presentation at S ...

, Shulyak was dismissed from post of

chief of the General Staff The Chief of the General Staff (CGS) is a post in many armed forces (militaries), the head of the military staff. List * Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( United States) * Chief of the General Staff (Abkhazia) * Chief of General Staff (Af ...

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and Supreme commander-in-chief

Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma ( uk, Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency saw numerous corru ...

. In 2003 as a commander of the

, Colonel General Petro Shulyak with a group of officers visited Iraq where as part of multi-national force a peacekeeping mission was carried out by the 5th Separate Mechanized Brigade.Andriy Lysenko.
Petro Shulyak: In Iraq tempers the future of our Army (Петро ШУЛЯК: В Iраку гартується майбутнє нашої армії)
'. Den newspaper. 26 December 2003 Based in

Al Kut Kūt ( ar, ٱلْكُوت, al-Kūt), officially Al-Kut, also spelled Kutulamare or Kut al-Imara, is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about south east of Baghdad. the estimated population is about 389,400 people. It ...

, the Ukrainian military carried its mission mostly at the Iraq–Iran state border.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shulyak, Petro 1945 births Living people People from Rivne Oblast Colonel Generals of Ukraine Chiefs of the General Staff (Ukraine) Frunze Military Academy alumni Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni Recipients of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class