Illia Samoilenko (Ukrainian: Ілля Сергійович Самойленко; born 10 July 1994[1]) is a Ukrainian serviceman, an intelligence officer of the Azov Regiment[2][3][4] of the National Guard of Ukraine,[5][6] and a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Samoilenko studied at the Faculty of History of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

[7][8] In 2015, he began military service in the ATO/OOS zone as part of the Azov Regiment when he was 21 years old.

[9] Since the beginning of the blockade of Mariupol, he and his colleagues were in the Azovstal iron and steel works.

[13] In an interview to the BBC he said that he was held in solitary confinement in Russia for 120 days.