Alyaksandr Naumeka

Major General Alyaksandr Viktaravich Naumeka (Belarusian: Аляксандр Віктаравіч Навуменка; Russian: Александр Викторович Науменко; born in 26 November 1970), is a Belarusian army officer who is currently the  commander of the Northwestern Operational Command since 11 March 2021. Naumeka faces sanctions from several governments for presumptive participation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Biography
Alyaksandr Naumeka was born in Belarus on 26 November 1970. He graduated from the Minsk Suvorov Military School in 1988. He graduated from the Kharkov Higher Military Command Tank School in 1992.

He served in the 30th Guards Irkutsk-Pinsk Division, and after reduction, he transferred to the 5th Separate Special Purpose Brigade in 2010.

He had been the group commander, company commander, deputy detachment commander, detachment commander, brigade chief of staff commander of the 5th separate special forces brigade since that year.

He had also served in the Main Intelligence and Main Operations Directorates of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.

He graduated from the Military Academy of Belarus.

Before his appointment as head of the Minsk SVU in 2016, he served as chief of staff - first deputy commander of special operations forces of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus.

On 11 March 2021, Naumeka was appointed commander of the North Western Operational Command. As a high-ranking officer in the Belarusian army, Naumeka was sanctioned in 2022 by the UK, EU, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand for presumptive participation in Belarus's support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.