Denys Shleha

Denys Oleksiiovych Shleha (; born 1 May 1982) is a Ukrainian serviceman, colonel of the National Guard of Ukraine, a participant of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Hero of Ukraine.

Biography He graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of the National Guard of Ukraine (2003). He served in Dnipro from platoon commander to separate battalion commander; chief of staff of military unit 3021; chief of staff of the 5th Slobozhanska Brigade (Kharkiv); commander of military unit 3024 (2018–2021),

Participant in the ATO/JFO and defense of Mariupol. On 20 May, the entire garrison of Azovstal was evacuated to the territory of the occupied part of Donetsk Oblast. Interned in Turkey. Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, III class (25 March 2022)