Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Danylychuk, a 26-year-old Hero of Ukraine, has been appointed commander of the forty seventh Magura Separate Mechanised Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Supply: Zhytomyr Oblast Territorial Centre for Recruitment and Social Help
Particulars: Danylychuk, born within the village of Barvynivka within the Zviahel district of Zhytomyr Oblast, is a graduate of the Nationwide Academy of Floor Forces.
He has served within the thirtieth Mechanised Brigade because the starting of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, progressing from firm commander to chief of employees and battalion commander.
Danylychuk led his unit within the defence of Donetsk and Kharkiv oblasts, the place they worn out a whole lot of Russian troops and substantial quantities of kit. In February 2023, Ukrainian troopers underneath his management pushed again a sequence of assaults by Wagner Group – Russia’s infamous personal army firm – in Donbas, based on the Zhytomyr Oblast Territorial Centre for Recruitment and Social Help.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine on Danylychuk on 24 February 2024. He was additionally embellished with the Orders of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Second and Third Class, and the Order For Braveness, Third Class.
Previous to this, Colonel Yan Yatsyshen commanded the forty seventh Mechanised Brigade.
Background: In August 2025, Oleksandr Shyrshyn, commander of the forty seventh Magura Brigade, who criticised the command for "moronic duties" and unjustified losses in Russia's Kursk Oblast, introduced that he had resigned from his put up.
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