Maksym Marchenko

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 (Forces) of the National University of Defense of Ukraine.^[1]

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.^[2]

In April 2019, he was promoted to the rank of colonel.

On 1 March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he was appointed Governor of Odesa Oblast, succeeding Serhiy Hrynevetsky.^[3][4] On 15 March 2022, Marchenko appointed Anatoly Vorokhaev as his deputy.^[5] The same day, Marchenko met with Bernard-Henri Lévy in Odesa.^[6] Marchenko was dismissed as Governor by Presidential decree on 15 March 2023.^[7]

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