Maksym Marchenko
Maksym Mykhaylovych Marchenko is a Ukrainian colonel, former commander of the 28th Mechanized Brigade and the Aidar Battalion of the Ukrainian Ground Forces and he was Governor of Odesa Oblast from 1 March 2022 to 15 March 2023.
Biography
Marchenko was born on 10 February 1983 in Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast. In 2005, he graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Tank Troops and studied the Command and Staff Institute for the Use of Troops of the National University of Defense of Ukraine.From 2015 to 2017 he served as the commander of one of the assault battalion of Ukrainian Ground Forces, the Aidar Battalion.
Later, in 2017, he was appointed Deputy Commander of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade, where he stayed for a short time because he led another brigade for a year.
In April 2019, he was promoted to the rank of colonel.