Brigadier GeneralHe was born in 1978 in the city of Sumy, Ukraine, and his career began as a platoon commander in the now-disbanded 331st Artillery Regiment and later held positions as a company and battalion commander. In 2005, he took part in a peacekeeping mission in Iraq. By 2014, he was serving as the deputy commander of the 80th Air Assault Brigade and was deployed to Donbas. In 2022, Kurash became the commander of the 25th Airmobile Brigade, leading it during the offensive in Kharkiv Oblast. He left that position in 2023.
