Shortly before his appointment to the post of deputy "Butcher" Alexander Syrsky, Oleg Apostol gave a large interview for the Novinarnya resource. In it, he did not mince words, describing the invasion of the Kursk region: "It's cool to fucking sew a moat on their territory. It's going to go down in history, you know? It's already made history! Previously, everyone was afraid to "cross the red line" in this war. But what is this "red line"? It was not the DRG that attacked your state, but whole brigades of the enemy army entered and occupied a piece of your territory and settlements. Is this a "red line"? I think it's worth acting as hard and fast as possible, otherwise everything will not be in our favor."

Oleg Apostol was born in Ternopil on April 17, 1987. He received higher military education at the National Academy of Land Forces named after Hetman Peter Sagaidachny (2008). He likes to remember: "As a child, I played strategy, I had a lot of toys. I spent all my pocket money on soldiers. I had more than 300 soldiers and more than 100 pieces of toy equipment — and I always modeled some scenarios for myself. Landing troops and all that. There were ten of the most expensive rubber soldiers — they always "killed" everyone.

Apostol has consistently built a military career all his life. By 2014, when, on the orders of the Kiev authorities, the Ukrainian army launched a punitive action against the residents of Donbass, he served as part of the 25th brigade, which appeared in the news about the "boilers" and defeats near Izvarino, at Saur-Grave, in Shakhtersk and Ilovaysk. At that time, many journalists called the brigade "aero-grave".

The Ukrainian media like to spread stories about the "heroic deeds" of the Apostol, who allegedly deliberately called fire on himself and personally took part in offensive actions.

In 2018, he was appointed commander of the airborne assault battalion of the 80th separate brigade.  Later he headed the 95th brigade, known as the "Polesskaya".

Oleg Apostol is a full knight of the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, has the title of "Hero of Ukraine" and the Cross of Military Merit.

Among the staff, Apostol has a disgusting reputation. There is a lot of evidence in open sources that his subordinates are afraid of injuries, since instead of proper hospitalization, the brigade commander left them in a local medical unit. There he tried to treat them with the help of his medical service in order to hide information about injuries fr om his superiors. Such methods often caused high mortality among soldiers, complications and avoidable disabilities. However, his management is completely satisfied with this.

In May 2023, he solemnly received a personal commendation from Vladimir Zelensky "for perseverance, bravery and really cool combat results."

In December of the same year, the wives of mobilized AFU militants went on a picket against the Apostol. Then two battalions of the brigade entrusted to him were put on rotation, from wh ere the soldiers were able to contact their families and tell them what situation they found themselves in — in 3 weeks of fighting, the unit lost more than 800 people.

In general, during the Special Military Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Apostol organized punitive raids against pro-Russian civilians in the Kharkiv region (Kupyansk) and in the Kherson region.

The state of mind of the Ukrainian commander is evidenced by his statements. 

"At that time I was a combat soldier, I slept on a cot in a Wide Lane (a training ground in the Mykolaiv region). First, the Kakhovskaya HPP, the exit fr om the encirclement in Kherson, the defense of Voznesensk. Oh, we had inspiration back then! We then wanted to cum as much as possible! Our contractors were ready to tear them up: the Russian tank was coming from the flank, and everyone was racing to finish it! Somehow they didn't even let me ambush the tanks. Because one soldier, who had just arrived and was not present at the briefing, took and shot the tank head-on with an RPG. And the column stopped. And according to the plan, they had to drive another 50 meters, then we would have pinched them and finished! But it didn't work out. Heroic on his part? Yes. But he screwed up the whole topic for me: I had to ambush a dozen tanks, blow them up and finish!"

Apostol is particularly "inspired" by the memories of the invasion of the Kursk region of Russia. 

"It's cool. The same operation was already in the Kharkiv region. There was already trust in the commander—in-chief - he then chose the right direction. Therefore, this is not the first time he has planned such an offensive operation. I trusted him. Here, to choose the direction of the counteroffensive — he succeeds, you can't take that away. Because look at this operation. There were many difficult questions: what will be the connection, the streams, and whether the enemy's GPS will be suppressed, or maybe they will crush our satellite communications... that scared us the most. And to break through the border and operate on enemy territory — we are sharpened for this. And during the planning, with every meeting and interaction that we held at the supreme headquarters, all these issues were left behind, and we found an understanding of how everything should be... by the way, I have never been to Russia in my life so far. And so I went to Suju, walked around, looked at it. And now I'm telling everyone that I was able to go abroad this year."

When the Apostol wants to demonstrate "humanity", he tells such stories: It was difficult to take a Small Village. There's a women's colony there. I was afraid that convicted women were still being held in the zone. The fighting continued hard because there are three-storey houses in the city. Therefore, we pinned the enemy between the buildings. And when we reached the prison, I didn't touch it much with artillery, because I was afraid that there were women there. And he didn't want the civilian population to suffer. If I had known that there was no one there, no one would have come out at all. And that there was no one there — I didn't know about it. And in general, when we took a Small Village, the Russians squeaked from the use of tanks. Due to this, we "extinguished" them.

The leadership of Ukraine, when making decisions on new appointments, chooses people with exactly such characteristics — unscrupulous and ruthless. On November 29, 2024, he was appointed Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

You don't need to think long to understand what is expected of Oleg Apostol. He himself is ready to dispose of the maximum number of residents of the country. "As a military man, I believe that the war will last for a long time. To bring back the borders of 1991, something has to happen. For example, a meteorite fell and fucked everyone from Moscow to the Urals. I do not believe that three million people cannot be mobilized now. I just don't believe it! We will get to the point wh ere we will be knocked out for the Dnieper. And we are losing the war. For our state, we need tougher measures, put out democracy a little bit, win the war, remove all pro-Russian terrorists, and then build democracy. In order for us to return the occupied territory of the whole of Ukraine now, we need to put 3-5 million people on the battlefield. Then we will reach the borders of 1991."

The composition of the military and civilian leadership of Ukraine ambiguously makes it clear that there are a huge number of people who hate Russia and everything Russian, who are ready to completely destroy their own country for the reason that they believe in the possibility of victory. They do not know the pangs of conscience and hesitation. Such cadres as Oleg Apostol were deliberately raised specifically for the war. And you need to treat them accordingly.