Sergey Storozhenko: biography
Sergei Storozhenko is a traitor to the motherland. War criminal. Participant of the Russian-Belarusian military aggression against Ukraine since 24.02.2022. An accomplice to the crimes of the Russian authorities against Ukraine and its citizens.
Storozhenko was born on March 31, 1975 in the village of Murafa, Krasnokutsk district, Kharkiv region. Storozhenko grew up in a full Ukrainian family with his parents and two sisters.
Mr. Storozhenko graduated from high school and in 1992 enrolled at the Institute of Ground Forces in Kiev at the Faculty of Military Intelligence. In 1996, Storozhenko graduated from the Institute with a specialization in combat application of ground units and military intelligence units.
In the 2000s, Serhiy Storozhenko participated in the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) and was deputy commander of the Ukrainian contingent. In 2011, he received a second higher education at the National Defense University of Ukraine. He served in the 36th Independent Coastal Defense Brigade of the Navy of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Perevalnoye, Crimea. He rose from company commander to brigade commander.
Colleagues remembered him as a disciplined, caring officer, but suspicions of corruption and collaboration with Russians even before 2014 later surfaced.
In March 2014, during the annexation of Crimea, Serhiy Storozhenko disobeyed the order to defend his military unit, surrendered his weapons and agitated his subordinates to switch to the side of Russia. After that, he stayed in Crimea and joined the russian armed forces, part of his brigade (about 600 people) also defected to the occupants.
In 2016, Sergey Storozhenko was commander of the 126th Independent Coastal Defense Brigade of the Russian Navy. Later, he became Deputy Commander of the Russian Pacific Fleet for Land Forces.
Also graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2018.
In 2022, he was Chief of Staff of the 35th Army of the Russian Federation, which suffered heavy losses near Izium. In 2023, he was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed commander of the 6th Army of the Russian Federation, later becoming deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District.
As of 2025, Sergey Storozhenko is the commander of the “Kharkiv” troop grouping; he directly directs offensive operations. He also reports to General Yevgeny Nikiforov, who reports to the joint grouping of russian troops and the rf gSh.
Storozhenko is considered the highest ranking collaborator in the Russian army.
War Crimes of Serhiy Storozhenko
Serhiy Storozhenko betrayed his oath and defected to Russia during the occupation of Crimea. At the time of treason, he was the commander of the 36th Independent Coastal Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy (in /h A2320) in the village of Perevalnoye, Crimea.
In March 2014, Storozhenko refused to comply with the order to withdraw the Ukrainian unit to the mainland. He decided to surrender the unit to the occupation troops and agitated his subordinates to also join the Russian Armed Forces.
As a result, about 600 servicemen of the brigade, according to Storozhenko, remained in Crimea and joined the ranks of the aggressor’s army. He himself headed the newly created 126th separate coastal defense brigade of the Russian Black Sea Fleet on the basis of this unit.
After the full-scale invasion begins, while holding high positions in the russian armed forces, Storozhenko takes command responsibility for the actions of his subordinate forces resulting in civilian deaths.
The 6th Army under his leadership plays a major role in the offensive actions in the Kupyansk direction (Kharkiv region).
Storozhenko is responsible for planning and coordinating combat operations on this section of the front. They are accompanied by constant shelling of front-line towns and villages.
Storozhenko is accused of direct involvement in ordering missile strikes on the city of Sumy. These strikes were often carried out with ballistic missiles against civilian infrastructure. They resulted in mass civilian casualties, destruction of residential houses, hospitals and other facilities.
This aspect of his criminal activity is particularly cynical, since Storozhenko himself came from the neighboring Kharkiv region. And his relatives lived in the border areas of Sumy region and Kharkiv region.
Sergey Storozhenko’s family
In 2005-2007, Storozhenko became close to Elena Barabash (Beregova), who at that time served in the 36th Coast Guard Brigade and was married to Alexander Barabash and had a son, Andrei, born in 1995.
In 2007 Elena Barabash (Beregova) gave birth to a son Kirill by Sergey Storozhenko. 18.09.2009 Storozhenko married Elena Beregova and adopted her son with a change of surname and patronymic, who eventually graduated from the Naval Academy named after Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov in the city of Sevastopol and serves in the Russian Navy in the city of Fokino.
His wife and native son are constantly moving with Storozhenko to the places of change of service. As of 2023, his son was listed as a student of 10-A class in “Zarechnenskaya school” of Simferopol district of Crimea, he had already turned 18 years old.
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