Mikhail Nikolaevich Kutsin ( ukr. Mikhailo Mykolajovich Kutsin ); kind of August 15, 1957 , in the village of Svoboda , Transcarpathian region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) - Ukrainian military leader , lieutenant-general . Chief of General Staff - Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (February 27 - July 3, 2014) [1] . He was contused and removed from all posts on July 3, 2014 [2] .
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| Head of the government | Arseny Petrovich Yatsenyuk | ||||||
| The president | Alexander Valentinovich Turchinov ( I.O. ) Petro Poroshenko Alekseevich | ||||||
| Predecessor | Yuri Ivanovich Ilyin | ||||||
| Successor | Viktor Nikolaevich Muzhenko | ||||||
| Birth | August 15, 1957 (61 years) Svoboda village , Beregovo district , Transcarpathian region , Ukrainian SSR , USSR | ||||||
| Education | Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command School , Military Academy of Armored Forces | ||||||
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| Years of service | 1978 - 2014 | ||||||
| Affiliation |  USSR → Ukraine | ||||||
| Type of army | Ground troops | ||||||
| Rank |  lieutenant general | ||||||
| Commanded | Operational Command "West" (2004—2014) | ||||||
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Biography
Mikhail Nikolaevich Kutsin was born in 1957 in the village of Svoboda, Beregovo district, Transcarpathian region, Ukrainian SSR
Military service in the USSR
In 1978 he graduated from the Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command School . He began his officer service as commander of a tank platoon of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany .
Further, in 1980-1987, he was a platoon commander, a company commander of cadets of the Kharkov Higher Tank Command School .
In 1990 he graduated from the Military Academy of Armored Forces in Moscow.
From 1990 to 1992 he held the posts of deputy commander, commander of a tank battalion, deputy chief of staff of a tank regiment of the Belarusian Military District .
Military service in Ukraine
In the Armed Forces of Ukraine since December 1992.
In 1992-1996 he served as chief of staff and commander of the regiment of the Carpathian Military District of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
From 1996 to 1999 - Chief of Staff, Commander of the 24th Mechanized Division of the Western Operational Command .
In 2001 he graduated from the faculty of training specialists at the operational and strategic level of the National Academy of Defense of Ukraine .
From 2001 to 2004, he served as Chief of Staff, Commander of the 13th Army Corps of the Western Operational Command.
From 2004 - First Deputy Commander, then, from July 20 of the same year [3] to 2010 - Commander of the Western Operational Command. Stock Lieutenant General.
Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine (at that time, Mikhail Yezhel ) (Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, March 31, 2010).
By decree and. about. President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov, number 172/2014 of February 28, 2014, was appointed Chief of the General Staff - Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (instead of Yuri Ilyin ); Major-General Viktor Ganushchak , who previously headed the Eastern Territorial Command of the Internal Troops, became the acting commander of the Western OC.
On July 2, 2014, when he was in a combat zone in Ukraine , he received a concussion , which is why he could no longer fulfill his duties. On July 3, President Petro Poroshenko appointed Viktor Muzhenko as Chief of the General Staff of Ukraine.
Awards
- Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky II nd [4] and III nd [5] degrees
- Order of Merit , III degree [6]
- Medal "For Military Merit"
- Medal "For Military Service to Ukraine"
- Medal "For impeccable service" І-nd, ІІ-nd and ІІІ-th degree,
- other medals and insignia of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
Family
Married, two daughters.
Notes
- ↑ Biography M. N. Kutsina on the official website of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
- ↑ Echo of Moscow :: News / Former General Staff Chief Mikhail Kutsin suffered in a special operation zone
- ↑ M.Kutsin appointed commander of the Western operational command
- ↑ [1] (inaccessible link) (rus.)
- ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 1185/2005 dated August 22, 2005 “On the awarding of state awards of Ukraine on the occasion of Independence Day of Ukraine” Archival copy dated January 28, 2014 on Wayback Machine (rus.)
- ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine “On awarding state awards of Ukraine on the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day” (rus.)