Petro Shulyak

Petro Ivanovych Shulyak (; born 29 March 1945) is a serviceman of the Ukrainian military, Colonel General who served as the Chief of General Staff and Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

Career Native of Ukraine, on 30 January 1992 Shulyak was dismissed from his post of chief of cadres (personnel) administration of the Baltic Military District for expressing his interest in joining the Ukrainian Armed Forces as the "alien army".

Following the incident, Minister of Defence of Ukraine Kostiantyn Morozov offered him the position of commander of the 13th Army located in the Carpathian Military District based in Rivne, a native region of Shulyak. Based in Al Kut, the Ukrainian military carried out its mission mostly at the Iraq–Iran state border.