Andrei Demurenko

Andrei Vladimirovich Demurenko (Russian: Андрей Владимирович Демуренко; born 28 April 1955) is a Russian military officer and commentator who is a colonel in the Russian Ground Forces. He was the chief of staff of the United Nations Protection Force in the Sarajevo sector in 1995, during the Bosnian War, and was later the deputy director of the peacekeeping department at the Russian General Staff. Demurenko came out of retirement in 2023 to fight in the Russo-Ukrainian War, serving in the Battle of Bakhmut before being injured and removed from the front. He is the first and currently the only Russian officer to graduate from the United States Army Command and General Staff College.