By order of the administration of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Viktor Ivanovych Melnychenko has been appointed chief of the Lutsk border detachment. Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Melnychenko is 33 years old. In 1993, he graduated with honors from the Almaty Higher Border Command School. After five years of service in various positions in the Kotovsk border detachment, he studied at and graduated with honors from the operational-tactical faculty of the National Academy of the Border Troops of Ukraine named after Bohdan Khmelnytskyi. After that, he served in various positions in Odesa, Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Zhytomyr, and Mostyska. He is married and is raising a son.