In 2004 he graduated from the Ivan Chernyakhovsky National Defense University of Ukraine.

During Euromaidan, Lebid was in command of the Internal Troops Tiger Regiment, which on 9 December 2013 in Vasylkiv broke the blockade of protesters that prevented the arrival of security forces in Kyiv.

[2] In the spring of 2014, he was appointed Acting Head of the Eastern Territorial Department of the National Guard of Ukraine.

On 12 May, he was kidnapped in Donetsk by unknown gunmen as he was returning home from duty.

[4] On 13 June 2019, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Lebid deputy commander of the NMU.