Pavlo Yelizarov

Pavlo Yelizarov is a businessman and military officer with the call sign Lazar, a colonel of the National Guard. 

Before the war, Pavlo Yelizarov was the producer of the talk show "Shuster Live" and a co-owner of Savik Shuster's studio.

At the beginning of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine Pavlo Yelizarov created the military unit Lasarʼs Group. 

On January 19, 2026, Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Pavlo Yelizarov had become deputy to Air Force Commander Anatolii Kryvonozhko. Lazar was responsible for the short-range air defense system.

Pavlo Yelizarov announced that he had resigned from the post of Deputy Commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on July 16, 2026.