Ihor Mykolayovych Palahnyuk (Ukrainian: Ігор Миколайович Палагнюк; born 29 July 1966), is a Ukrainian army officer who is currently the chief of staff - Deputy Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

[3] In 2015, Pahalyuk became the deputy commaneder of the Operational Command East.

In 2017, Palahnyuk graduated from the National Defense University of Ukraine named after Ivan Chernyakhovsky and obtained qualifications: master's degree, professional in the field of defense, operational-strategic level officer.

In 2018, he was appointed to the post of Chief of the Main Command Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

On 2 July 2019, by order of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Palahnyuk was appointed commander of the forces of the operational command "South".