1. Semen Ihorovych Semenchenko is a former deputy to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on National Security and Defence and the commander-founder of the Donbas Battalion, a territorial defence battalion based in Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk Oblasts.
Semen Semenchenko was a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from 2014 to 2019.
From 2006 to 2008 Semenchenko studied to become a film director.
Semen Semenchenko said he worked in "business activities in the field of security" before the war in Donbass.
On 19 August 2014, Semenchenko was wounded by shrapnel when his forces were hit by mortar fire before entering the town of Ilovaisk, 18 kilometers east of Donetsk.
Semen Semenchenko was later awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky by the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov.
On February 9,2015, by the Decree of the President of Ukraine Semen Semenchenko delegated his powers as a commander of the Donbas battalion to Anatolyi Vynogrodskiy though being a founder of the battalion Semenchenko remained its honoured commander.
In 2014 during the parliamentary elections the battalion commander Semenchenko decided to run for the elections as a member of the party of a Lviv politician, Mayor of the city Andriy Sadovyi - Self-Reliance Union.
One of the issues of Semenchenko program is building of the Ukrainian military organization created by him which mobilizes the society to encourage a process of forming a unified system of the territorial defence in Ukraine.
Semen Semenchenko was awarded for the service in the battle shown while liberating the cities of Artemivsk, Popasna and Lysychansk.
Semen Semenchenko is a member of a group on interparliamentary connections with the United States of America.
On September 14,2014, Semen Semenchenko being a member of a delegation of the Ukrainian Military Organization arrived to the United States of America where he met members of the Congress, representatives of the Pentagon, American civil society and Ukrainian diaspora.
Semen Semenchenko touched the urgent topic of providing those who suffered during the ATO in Ukraine with quality prostheses.
Semen Semenchenko went to the US to pay a visit to military training centres to talk about training.
Semen Semenchenko is a civil activist in providing legal rights and interests of volunteers, namely his activity is aimed at preventing illegal prosecution of volunteers, taking soldiers of volunteer battalions on bail and visiting courts to provide support and protection for soldiers.
Semen Semenchenko took part in protests to protect a founder and soldier of the Aydar battalion Valentyn Lykholit.
Semen Semenchenko was present and provided support and protection of interests of NABU in Solomianskyi Court of Kyiv where NABU accused a military prosecutor of the ATO area Kostiantyn Kulyk of illegal getting rich.
Threats of Yehor Soboliev and Semen Semenchenko became a subject of an open letter of the Judges Council of Ukraine about threatening their health and lives.
In mid-April 2014 Semenchenko formed a detachment of citizen militia out of Ukrainian citizens in the Donetsk region to struggle against separatists of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.
On May 15,2014, Semenchenko leading the battalion liberated the district department of militia in Velyka Novosilka from loyal to terrorists militia.
Semen Semenchenko led a demonstration near the Presidential Administration and had a word on the stage of Maidan.
The battalion soldiers located in Artemivsk and led by Semenchenko are taking active actions to liberate the city from terrorists, night attacks of terrorists are repelled, checkpoints in the city and beyond its boundaries are being built and the operations to clear the territory are being prepared.
Semen Semenchenko claimed, 'I am supporting the idea of decreasing oligarchs' role in the country.
Semen Semenchenko put an ultimatum concerning letting these doubtful 'humanitarian' goods:.
The Donbas battalion commander Semen Semenchenko entered the building of the Ministry to meet the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov.