Oleksandr Kikhtenko is a Ukrainian military leader and statesman. He is a career officer of the Internal Troops of Ukraine and a General of Army of Ukraine (2008). He served in the army since 1974 first in the Soviet Army and then in the Ukrainian Army. In 1978 Kikhtenko graduated the Frunze College of General Command (Omsk). In 1991 he graduated the faculty of intelligence of the Frunze Military Academy (Moscow). On June 11, 2015 Kikhtenko was fired as a governor and replaced by Pavlo Zhebrivskyi.