Dmytro Yevhenovych Delyatytskyi (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ Євге́нович Деляти́цький; born 14 August 1976) is a Ukrainian Marine Corps major general who has been the commander of the Marine Corps and the 30th Amphibious Corps since 2024.
Dmytro Delyatytskyi | |
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Дмитро Делятицький | |
 Delyatytskyi in 2016 | |
| Commanding General of the Ukrainian Marine Corps | |
| Assumed office 11 February 2024 | |
| President | Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
| Preceded by | Yurii Sodol |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 August 1976 Khabarovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Education | Odesa Military Academy |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Ukraine |
| Branch/service | |
| Rank | Major general |
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| Battles/wars | Russo-Ukrainian War |
He previously commanded the 1st Marine Battalion during the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the 36th Marine Brigade during the Donbass War. He was later the deputy commander of the Marine Corps Command from 2018 to 2023 and commander of the Odesa Military Academy from 2023 to 2024.
Early life and education
editDelyatytskyi was born in Khabarovsk to a Soviet military family and lived in the Russian Far East and in the north of Russia before moving to Ukraine. After Ukrainian independence he joined the country's military[1] and graduated from the Odesa Institute of the Ground Forces.[2]
Military career
editLieutenant Colonel Delyatytskyi was the commander of Ukraine's only marine unit, the 1st Marine Battalion, near Feodosia, Crimea, in 2014. When the Russian Federation annexed Crimea, Delyatytskyi led about two companies of marines that kept their oath of loyalty to Ukraine back to the Ukrainian mainland, where they were based in Mykolaiv.[2] This was after they were captured and briefly detained by the Russian forces, who let them go.[3]
Over next few years the Naval Infantry was expanded and one of the first units that was formed was the 36th Marine Brigade.[2] It was established on the basis of the Navy's 36th Coastal Defense Brigade, and Delyatytskyi served as the commander of the new marine brigade from 2015 until 2018. The unit consisted of the Ukrainian marines that had left Crimea, former members of the original Coastal Defense Brigade, and volunteers that joined after it was formed.[4]
In the spring of 2018, when the Ukrainian Navy established a new Marine Corps Command and began reforming the Ukrainian Naval Infantry along the lines of the United States Marine Corps, Delyatytskyi became its deputy commander.[2][5] He was promoted to colonel at some point, and then to brigadier general on 6 December 2021[6] and to major general on 24 August 2023.[7] In 2023 he became the director of the Odesa Military Academy, his alma mater.
On 11 February 2024 Delyatytskyi became the commander of the Ukrainian Marine Corps after his predecessor Yurii Sodol was made the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces.
Awards
edit- Order of Danylo Halytsky (21 August 2014)[8]
- Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 1st class (24 May 2022)[9]
- Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 2nd class (26 March 2022)[10]
- Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class (17 May 2019)[11]
- Medal "10 years of the Armed Forces of Ukraine"
- Medal "For Honest Service" 2nd class
- Medal "For Honest Service" 3rd class
- Anniversary Medal "90 years of the Naval Flag of Ukraine"
References
edit- ^ Lashchenko, Oleksandr (6 December 2016). "На командирських посадах у ЗСУ саме бойові офіцери – майор-десантник Усанов" [The commanding officers of the ZSU are combat officers - paratrooper major Usanov]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Ukrainian).
- ^ a b c d Nazarchuk, Iryna (2 June 2018). "ВМС ЗСУ. Про поповнення в морській піхоті України та її нові головні убори" [Navy of the Armed Forces. About the replenishment in the Marine Corps of Ukraine and its new headgear]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 20 September 2019.
- ^ Dubchak, Andrii (10 April 2018). "Комбриг морпіхів Дмитро Делятицький: «Ми однозначно повернемося додому у Крим»" [Marine brigade commander Dmytro Delyatytskyi: "We will definitely return home to Crimea"]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Ukrainian).
- ^ "ЮРІЙ СОДОЛЬ: 36-ТА БРИГАДА Є СТЕРЖНЕМ СЕРЕД ПІДРОЗДІЛІВ МОРСЬКОЇ ПІХОТИ" [YURII SODOL: THE 36TH BRIGADE IS THE KEY AMONG MARINE UNITS]. Armiya FM (in Ukrainian). 22 July 2019.
- ^ Nazarchuk, Iryna (17 May 2018). "Командувач морської піхоти України: «Внутрішній стрижень є важливим для морпіха»" [Commander of the Naval Infantry of Ukraine: "Inner core is important for a marine"]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 15 August 2020.
- ^ "Указ Президента України від 6 грудня 2021 року № 621/2021" [Decree of the President of Ukraine from 6 December 2021 no. 621/2021] (in Ukrainian).
- ^ "Указ Президента України від 24 серпня 2023 року № 520/2023" [Decree of the President of Ukraine from 24 August 2023 no. 520/2023] (in Ukrainian).
- ^ "Указ Президента України від 21 серпня 2014 року № 660/2014" [Decree of the President of Ukraine from 21 August 2014 no. 660/2014] (in Ukrainian).
- ^ "Указ Президента України від 24 травня 2022 року № 366/2022" [Decree of the President of Ukraine from 24 May 2022 no. 366/2022] (in Ukrainian).
- ^ "Указ Президента України від 26 березня 2022 року № 175/2022" [Decree of the President of Ukraine from 26 March 2022 no. 175/2022] (in Ukrainian).
- ^ "Указ Президента України від 17 травня 2019 року № 270/2019" [Decree of the President of Ukraine from 17 May 2019 no. 270/2019] (in Ukrainian).