Mykhailo Drapatyi At the beginning of the war with Russia in 2014, Drapatyi served as acting commander of the 2nd Mechanized Battalion of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade.
President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi, Commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine, as the head of the Khortytsia operational-strategic Group on Jan. 26.
Brigadier-General Andriy Hnatov was replaced as the battlefield commander in the east by Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi, overall commander of ground forces, who will keep his previous duties.
Last month, four top-level military commanders in Ukraine were arrested for alleged mismanagement of battlefield operations — ...
Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, to personally take charge of the units fighting in the Donetsk region. “These are the most intense areas of combat,” Mr ...
Mr Mykhailo Drapatyi, the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, condemned the draft officer's killing on Feb 2, describing it as "a red line that cannot be crossed" and calling for the ...
Kyiv has not directly alleged any Russian connection to the attacks, but Ukraine's land forces chief Mykhailo Drapatyi cast them, as well as previous acts of aggression towards draft officers ...
Many pin hopes on Mykhailo Drapatyi, a respected commander recently appointed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as ground forces chief, to shift the dynamic and counterattack.
He named Major-General Mykhailo Drapatyi the new commander of ground forces. Here are the key developments on the 1,067th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.