Viktor Gennadievich Khrenin[a] (born 1 August 1971) is a Belarusian senior military officer and the current minister of defense since 2020.

His father, Gennady Khrenin, was a Soviet Army Colonel in Reserve from the Penza Oblast.

After leaving this post, he took a number of leadership positions that climaxed when he became the commander of the 11th Guards Berlin-Carpathian Mechanized Brigade.

In 2014, he graduated from the faculty of the General Staff of the Belarusian Military Academy with honours and a gold medal.

[5] On the 80th birthday of Anatoly Kostenko, Khrenin personally congratulated the former defence minister in the building of the military department.