Dmytro Mykhalets has extensive experience in the new police force and has taken an active part in the fighting for Ukraine in the hottest spots, first as a volunteer and later as a member of special police battalions.
Dmytro Mikhalets, 33, is from Khmelnytskyi. He was an active participant in the Euromaidan and volunteered to defend Ukraine in the ATO zone. Between 2015 and 2023, he served in the Patrol Police of Ukraine in various cities and in various positions, and was deputy head of the Main Police Department in Lviv Oblast.
He met the beginning of the war here, in the Lviv region, protecting public order when more than 5 million internally displaced persons passed through Lviv. At the end of 2022, he went to the frontline to defend Ukraine. At that time, he commanded the Zakhid battalion, which took part in the operation to liberate the Kharkiv region, in the fighting in the Bakhmut direction, and in the defence of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
In 2023, he joined the separate assault brigade of the National Police “Rage”, defending the country in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. He was injured and discharged from service in January 2024.
On 26 January 2024, Dmytro Mikhalets was appointed an advisor to the mayor of the Lviv City Council’s executive committee on veterans and people with disabilities in Lviv. In his new position, he plans to work primarily on increasing opportunities for veterans’ socialisation in civilian life and creating a quality veterans’ space.
“A lot has already been done, but there is still a lot to do. There is a centre for providing services to combatants, a veteran’s space, but all this needs to be developed even further. Because if there were about 7,000 ATO participants in Lviv, there will be more than 35,000 participants in the war with Russia. This is a large number of people who will need different types of assistance in resolving their issues, and we need to have every opportunity to help them as much as possible.
There should be a separate approach to each soldier who has returned from the war. This is a kind of mentoring for each soldier, who will receive qualified assistance from social workers in collecting certain documents: if they were injured, they will receive assistance with their injuries, etc. Separately, we will work with the team to provide comprehensive assistance to people with disabilities that were not acquired because of the war,” explains Dmytro Mikhalets.
Among the most important things in the plans is the creation of a veterans’ space where every veteran can find himself or herself and socialise in society outside the war. It also means helping soldiers who have been injured and need rehabilitation and recovery. It is also about maximising the involvement of businesses that will hire veterans, and, of course, involving veterans in local government.
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Dmytro Volodymyrovych Mikhalets (33 years old)
13.03.1990.
Originally from Khmelnytskyi.
He was an active participant of Euromaidan. In 2014, as a volunteer in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he participated in the ATO zone.
In 2015, he began serving in the newly created patrol police after passing a competitive selection. He was a company commander of the Kyiv Patrol Police.
In 2016, he worked as the Head of the Patrol Police Department in Ivano-Frankivsk.
In 2018, he was transferred to Khmelnytskyi to head the Main Department of the National Police for Preventive Activities. He also periodically participated in the ATO/JFO.
In 2019, he became the Deputy Head of the Main Police Department of Lviv Region. He met the beginning of the war here, in the Lviv region, working in public order.
At the end of 2022, he went to the front line to defend Ukraine. He commanded the Zakhid Battalion, which took part in the operation to liberate the Kharkiv region: first he was a deputy and then a battalion commander. Later, the battalion took part in combat operations in the Bakhmut direction, in the defence of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
In 2023, he joined the separate assault brigade of the National Police “Rage”, defending the country in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
He was injured and discharged from the service in January 2024.
He lives in Lviv and has a 7-year-old son.