“He calls dismissal from service the most difficult decision he made in his life.”, — write: www.unian.ua
He calls dismissal from service the most difficult decision he made in his life.
General Dmytro Marchenko can no longer continue his service / UNIAN collage, photo facebook.com/dmitry.marchenko.78General Dmytro Marchenko resigned from military service. He announced this on his Facebook page.“No tests from the enemy, no pressure forced me to stop in the unwavering fight for Ukraine. Therefore, leaving the service became the most difficult decision I made in my life,” Marchenko wrote.
He noted that he is undergoing “necessary treatment”, but did not specify what exactly happened to him. At the same time, he showed a photo of him under a drip.
“After all, even the indomitable sometimes need to be patched up a little to keep them afloat. After all, service in the army always requires sacrificing health. And without timely recovery, everything can become useless,” Marchenko noted.
He notes that on his way there was intelligence in the occupied Crimea, the withdrawal of 75 comrades from the encirclement in the Izvarinsky cauldron, “Donetsk airport, tens of thousands of kilometers along the endless steppes of Donbas, in times when few understood where their own were and where the enemy was. Hard work on the reform of material support and the introduction of a new food system, the development and struggle for new dry rations in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, fabricated criminal cases and the Kherson Oblast… a long, difficult path that transformed me at every stage and made me who I am there is,” the general wrote.
Marchenko emphasized that there is still a long way to fight for Ukraine and he will continue to do everything for victory. At the same time, he announced that he had launched the Dmytro Marchenko Charity Fund/Marchenko Foundation.
Marchenko under the dropper / photo facebook.com/dmitry.marchenko.78Who is General Marchenko?Dmytro Marchenko was born on February 25, 1978 in the city of Voznesensk, Mykolaiv Oblast, in a military family.
In 1996, he was sent for military service to the engineering and sapper regiment stationed in the city of Bakhchisarai. There he rose to the rank of sergeant. Then he entered training at the Odessa Institute of Ground Forces, after which he was assigned to the 79th landing brigade. As of March 2014, he had the military rank of “major” and the position of battalion commander.
Took an active part in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) in Donbas. As of October 2014, he was in the ranks of the “cyborgs” defending the Donetsk airport.
In September 2015, he was appointed to the position of head of the Main Department of Development and Material Support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Marchenko’s responsibilities included the transition of the Armed Forces to NATO standards in material and food supply, development of new models of material supply, creation of technical conditions according to NATO standards, control of the production process and quality of manufactured products, as well as control over tender purchases for the army.
In 2019, the State Bureau of Investigation, as part of an investigation into the purchase of material property for the Armed Forces at an inflated price, conducted a number of searches in the Main Directorate for the Development and Support of the Material Support of the Armed Forces. It was also about the fact that the purchased bulletproof vests were of low quality and they were shot through.
In November 2019, the Pechersk District Court, as part of this case, chose a preventive measure for Marchenko — detention for 60 days or bail in the amount of UAH 76 million. Part of this money was contributed by the fifth president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko.
On December 17, 2019, General Marchenko was released from the SIZO on bail.
During the full-scale Russian invasion, he led the defense of Mykolaiv (from February to April 2022). At the end of July 2022, he returned to Mykolaiv, where he worked on strengthening the interaction between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the regional government, and also coordinated the work of partisans.
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