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Ukrainian serviceman (born 1982)
Denys Shleha
Денис Шлега
Personal details
BornDenys Oleksiiovych Shleha
(1982-05-01) 1 May 1982 (age 42)
Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
NationalityUkrainian
Alma materNational Guard Military Academy of Ukraine
Military service
AllegianceUkraine
Branch/serviceNational Guard of Ukraine
RankColonel
Battles/wars
Awards
  • Hero of Ukraine
  • Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, III class

Denys Oleksiiovych Shleha (Ukrainian: Денис Олексійович Шлега; born 1 May 1982, Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) is a Ukrainian serviceman, colonel of the National Guard of Ukraine, a participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Hero of Ukraine (2022).

Biography

He graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of the National Guard of Ukraine (2003). He served in Dnipro from platoon commander to separate battalion commander; chief of staff of military unit 3021; chief of staff of the 5th Slobozhanska Brigade (Kharkiv); commander of military unit 3024 (2018–2021), from 2021 – commander of the 12th Dmytro Vyshnevetskyi Operational Brigade.

Participant in the ATO/JFO and defense of Mariupol.

On 15 May 2022, he said that there were about 600 wounded soldiers at Azovstal in the blockaded Mariupol, 40 of them in very serious condition. On 20 May, the entire garrison of Azovstal was evacuated to the territory of the occupied part of Donetsk Oblast.

On 21 September 2022, he was released from captivity in a prisoner of war exchange. Interned in Turkey.

On 8 July 2023, he returned to the territory of Ukraine.

Awards

References

  1. ^ Шлега Денис Олексійович / О. С. Іщенко // Енциклопедія Сучасної України / Редкол.: І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк  ; НАН України, НТШ. – К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2023.
  2. Тищенко, О. Командир військової частини Павлограда розповів кого призвуть до армії цієї осені, 18.09.5632.
  3. У Маріупольській бригаді Нацгвардії представили нового командира, Портал МВС, 12.05.2021.
  4. Мірер, Поліна (2022-05-18). "Обличчя "Азовсталі". Історії захисників Маріуполя".
  5. Віра Касіян, На Азовсталі близько 600 поранених військових, 40 із них у дуже тяжкому стані, — командир 12-ї бригади, Lb.ua, 15.05.2022.
  6. ""Їм час бути вдома": Зеленський і командири захисників "Азовсталі" приїхали до Львова".
  7. ""Їм час бути вдома": Зеленський і командири захисників "Азовсталі" приїхали до Львова".
  8. Decree of the President of Ukraine from 1 October 2022 year № 686/2022 «Про присвоєння Д.Шлезі звання Герой України» (in Ukrainian)
  9. Decree of the President of Ukraine from 25 March 2022 year № 168/2022 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України» (in Ukrainian)
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