Valery Sakhashchyk information

Valery Sakhashchyk
Valery Sakhashchyk
Валерый Сахашчык
	Sakhashchyk in 2022
Member of the United Transitional Cabinet for Defence and Security
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 9 August 2020
President	Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Personal details
Born	Valery Stepanovich Sakhashchik; 13 August 1964 (age 59); Goshava [be], Drahichyn District, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Independent
Education	Moscow Higher Military Command School
Military service
Allegiance	Soviet Union (1987–1991); Belarus (1992–2002); Ukraine (2023-present);
Branch/service	Airborne forces; Special Forces of Belarus; Main Directorate of Intelligence (Ukraine)[citation needed]
Rank	Lieutenant Colonel
Battles/wars	Russian invasion of Ukraine

Valery Stepanovich Sakhashchyk (Belarusian: Валерый Сцяпанавіч Сахашчык, romanized: Valeryj Sciapanavič Sachaščyk, Russian: Валерий Степанович Сахащик; born 13 August 1964) is a former commander of the Belarusian 38th Separate Guards Air Assault Brigade.^[1]^[2] Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Sakhashchyk launched video appeals calling for Belarusian forces to refuse to participate in any attack against Ukraine.^[1]^[3] On 9 August 2022, he was nominated as the effective defence minister of the Belarusian United Transitional Cabinet, a government-in-exile opposed to the de facto government of Alexander Lukashenko.^[4]^[5]

Sakhashchyk was involved in organizing the 1st Separate Air Assault Company "Belarus", a unit of Belarusian volunteers fighting within the 79th Air Assault Brigade of Ukraine. He also personally took part in military operations.^[6]

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[6] «Сахашчык сам удзельнічае ў баявых апэрацыях». Баец з новай дэсантнай роты беларусаў расказаў, чым яны займаюцца на Данбасе

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