Oleh Babiy

Oleh Ivanovych Babiy (; 22 October 1990 – 30 August 2023) was a Ukrainian military officer, colonel of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine, and a participant in the military defence of Ukraine after the Russo-Ukrainian War. He was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine with the Order of the Gold Star.

Biography Babiy was born on 22 October 1990 in Milovice, Czechoslovakia. In 2011, he graduated from the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi Ground Forces Academy.

He had been participating in the Russo-Ukrainian War since 2014. From the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he organised and carried out special operations in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine and in Russia, for which he was repeatedly awarded.

As of February 2017, he held the position of commander of a patrol platoon with the vehicles of the 1st Patrol Battalion, 45th Operational Purpose Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine.

With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, he continued to perform combat missions,

Babiy's last operation was the destruction of a Russian Tupolev Tu-22M3 bomber, and the disabling of two more, which, according to Ukraine, "completely destabilised the operation of airfields and long-range aviation bases" and reduced Russia's ability to launch missile strikes with Kh-22 missiles against Ukraine. In the course of the task, on 30 August 2023, the intelligence group headed by Babiy engaged in a battle with Russian special agents of the Federal Security Service. While covering the retreat of his comrades, Babiy was mortally wounded. For his heroic deeds, he was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine with the posthumous award of the Order of the Golden Star.

Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky 3rd, 2nd, 1st classes;

On 4 July 2024, the Lviv City Council adopted a decision to name a garden square in the Lviv district of Sykhiv after Oleh Babiy.