Ukrainian military service member and prisoner of war survivor with service in the National Guard of Ukraine, specializing in critical infrastructure defense and military security operations.
A senior sergeant (OR-7) assigned to Military Unit 3041, he was involved in the defense of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant at the onset of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. Captured during the initial offensive, he spent 42 months in captivity—primarily detained at Penal Facility No. 1 in Donskoy, Tula Oblast, Russia—before being repatriated in a prisoner-of-war exchange in August 2025.