The General Serhiy Melnyk, former head of the defense of Kharkiv, has been appointed Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
“The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, on the recommendation of the Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov, appointed Brigadier General of Justice Serhiy Nikolayevich Melnyk as Deputy Minister of Defense,” The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced on its official Telegram channel.
Sergiy Melnyk was born on July 12, 1977, in Vinnytsia region. In 1999, he graduated from Kharkiv Military University, after which he began his career in senior positions at the Military Law Faculty of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law Academy. In 2009, he received his second degree.
Since 1999, he has served in various positions in the Air Defense Brigades.
Since November 2019, he has been the Head of the Military Law Institute of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.
In 2022, Sergiy Melnyk completed a strategic-level senior management course (L-4) at the National Defense University of Ukraine.
From the beginning of the full-scale invasion, he was in charge of the defense of the city of Kharkiv. the newly appointed Deputy Minister is a Doctor of Law, Professor of Military Law, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine, and winner of the State Prize of Ukraine in Education.
