Andrei Demurenko

Andrei Vladimirovich Demurenko (Russian: Андрей Владимирович Демуренко; born 28 April 1955) is a Russian Ground Forces colonel and military commentator. He was the chief of staff of the United Nations Protection Force in the Sarajevo sector in 1995, during the Bosnian War, and was the deputy director of the peacekeeping department at the Russian General Staff during the late 1990s. 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.