1. Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasyuk is a Ukrainian military commander and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 27 November 2014 to 29 August 2019.
10 Facts About Volodymyr Parasyuk
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Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasyuk was born on 9 July 1987 in the village of Maidan, in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast.
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Volodymyr Parasyuk became known for his Euromaidan speech on 21 February 2014, in which he rejected the terms of an agreement between opposition leaders and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
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Later, Volodymyr Parasyuk fought in the war in Donbas as a member of the Dnipro Battalion, where he was taken prisoner by Russian forces during the battle of Ilovaisk and illegally moved to Rostov on Don.
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Volodymyr Parasyuk was later released with other Ukrainian prisoners of war.
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Volodymyr Parasyuk studied in the Faculty of Electronics at Lviv University, specializing in physical and biomedical electronics, but did not graduate from the program.
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Volodymyr Parasyuk later studied banking, and in 2016, he graduated from Lviv University with a bachelor's degree in economics.
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Volodymyr Parasyuk was a member of the Student Brotherhood of Lviv University and the far-right Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.
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Volodymyr Parasyuk was elected to the Verkhovna Rada during the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
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The Central Election Commission of Ukraine refused Volodymyr Parasyuk to register as a candidate for the snap 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election because the required deposit was made by an "inappropriate person".