Tenyukh, Igor Iosifovich

Igor Iosifovich Tenyukh was born in 1958 in the city of Stryi, Lviv Region, Ukrainian SSR .

In 1982 he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Naval School named after M.V. Frunze .

Officer service began as commander of the warhead of the ship.

From 1983 to 1991 - commander of the raid minesweeper , commander of the distillation crew, senior assistant commander of the sea minesweeper, commander of the sea minesweeper "Signalman", head of the department for storage of weapons and equipment of the mine and anti-submarine weapons base.

Service in the Ukrainian Navy

At the end of 1991, Igor Tenyukh was the first naval officer in the new Ukrainian army to join the organizing group to create the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine under the leadership of First Minister Konstantin Morozov.

In 1991, he participated in the development of draft laws on the creation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as part of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Commission on Defense and State Security.

In 1991-1995, he was a senior officer in the combat support department of the Naval Forces Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, head of the naval command and control division of the Main Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, head of the direction department of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In 1994, he graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages of the US Department of Defense , and in 1997, he graduated from the Department of Training Specialists of the Operationally Strategic Level of the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Since 1997, he served as commander of the 1st brigade of surface ships, head of the organizational group for the formation of a squadron of dissimilar forces, commander of the 4th squadron of dissimilar forces of the Ukrainian Navy.

In 2002, he served as commander of the multinational naval exercises Blackseafor .

An active participant in the Orange Revolution , he was a member of the National Salvation Committee, headed by Viktor Yushchenko ^[2] .

July 18, 2005, resigned, explaining his decision by reluctance to take part in the "destruction and destruction of the Navy."

Since November 2005, he served as deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

March 23, 2006, by Presidential Decree No. 252/2006, was appointed commander of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He was an opponent of basing the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in the Crimea.

Since June 23, 2006 - Vice Admiral .

By decree No. 741/2008 of August 20, 2008, President Viktor Yushchenko conferred the military rank “Admiral” on Vice Admiral Igor Tenyukh, Commander of the Navy of the Armed Forces.

By decree No. 357/2010 of March 17, 2010, he was relieved of the post of commander of the Naval Forces of Ukraine , with admission to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine. ^[3]

By decree No. 588/2010 of April 30, 2010 he was discharged from military service to the reserve due to health reasons with the right to wear military uniforms. ^[four]

Acting Minister of Defense of Ukraine

He was an active participant in Euromaidan . After the escape of Yanukovych in Rostov-on-Don , on February 27, 2014 he was appointed acting minister of defense in the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk .

Starting March 2, 2014, Ukrainian military units and Navy ships located on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea were blocked by armed special forces of the Russian GRU who appeared on the peninsula without military insignia, as well as, in part, civilians calling themselves “Crimean self-defense units” " The Ukrainian Armed Forces did not offer any active resistance. On March 11, 2014, Igor Tenyukh made a statement to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine stating that “The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not have a legal right to start military operations in Crimea,” because “there is no de jure open aggression of Russia, since the Russian Federation does not officially recognize responsibility for the military invasion. " Igor Tenyukh also stated that in such a situation “the use of the Ukrainian armed forces in Crimea without declaring martial law entails criminal liability” ^[5] Later, Igor Tenyukh explained the lack of resistance of the Ukrainian military by the fact that the order issued on March 3, 2014 and allowing the use of weapons for self-defense, as well as a repeated order issued after the death of a Ukrainian soldier, ^[6] was not actually implemented in order to prevent bloodshed. ^{[7] The} minister explained the indecisive actions of the military on the ground by insufficient attention to military training in recent years, and also noted the weak moral situation among the contract soldiers. ^[8] On March 23, Tenyukh announced the preparation of an order on the withdrawal of certain units and families of servicemen from the territory of Crimea. ^{[7] [9]}

Some deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine presented Tenyukh with a number of complaints - misinformation of the country's leadership, allegations that he was in touch with commanders in the Crimea, while not one of the leaders of the General Staff of Ukraine tried to contact the commanders of military units on the peninsula. On March 25, 2014, at the morning meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, Admiral Tenyukh himself resigned. 197 deputies voted for his dismissal (with the required minimum of 226 votes), on the same day, with a second vote, his resignation was adopted by the votes of 228 deputies ^[10] .

Instead of Igor Tenyukh, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved and. about. Minister of Defense of Ukraine Colonel-General Mikhail Koval .

On the evening of March 27, 2014, units of the Right Sector picketed the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine . Among the basic requirements is a tribunal over Igor Tenyukh ^[11] .

• Order of Merit III Art. (August 20, 2007) ^[12]
• Medal "For Military Service to Ukraine" (November 23, 1998) ^[13]
• Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III art.

•   Communication Tenyukha with the military in the Crimea. Channel 1 + 1, March 22, 2014