Yuriy Viktorovych Kovalenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Вікторович Коваленко; 16 July 1977 – 15 July 2014) was a Ukrainian military leader, Lieutenant colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the deputy commander of the 3rd spetsnaz regiment (Kirovohrad) South operational command of the Land forces.

Military service, first in Dnipropetrovsk (in one of the regiments of the 93rd Mechanised Division), then - in the Kirovohrad.

His detachment was guarding military facilities, accompanying weights and participated in intelligence operations and battles.

[3] To carry out tasks for the protection of the Ukrainian-Russian border near the village of the failures of the Sverdlovsk region, Luhansk Oblast.

For a successful breakthrough intelligence unit he received the rank of Lieutenant colonel through the enemy order of battle.