Volodymyr Parasyuk

Volodymyr Parasiuk
Володимир Парасюк

Parasiuk in February 2014
People's Deputy of Ukraine
Assumed office
27 November 2014[1]
Personal details
Born (1987-07-09) 9 July 1987
Maidan, Zhovkva Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Nationality Ukrainian

Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasiuk (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Зіно́війович Парасю́к, born 9 July 1987 in Maidan village, Zhovkva Raion)[2] is a Ukrainian public figure.

CBiography

He took part in the Euromaidan protests, where he was a sotnik (commander) of a group of defender of the Maidan (a sotnia) and became famous for his speech of 2014 February 21st when he issued an ultimatum to Yanukovich.

Later, he fought in the war in Donbass as a member of the Dnipro Battalion.,[2][3][4][5] where he was taken prisoner by the Russian forces during the battle of Ilovaisk and illegally moved to Rostov on Don(This is non-proved information, his own story). He was later released with other Ukrainian prisoners of war.

He studied (but not graduated) at the Faculty of Electronics Lviv University, specialty "Physical and biomedical electronics." Later, he graduated in 2016 Lviv University. He received a bachelor's degree in the direction of "Banking" and received qualification "Bachelor in economics". Unmarried.

He was a member of the Student Brotherhood Lviv University And the Congress of Ukrainian nationalists.

He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada during the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[6] Parasiuk as an independent candidate won a parliamentary seat by winning the electoral district of Yavoriv with 56.56% of the votes.[2][7] In parliament he joined the inter-factional group Ukrop.[8]

References

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