1. Yuriy Anatoliyovych Boyko is a Ukrainian politician who served as one of the Vice Prime Ministers of Ukraine between 2012 and 2014, as well as the Minister of Energy from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2010 to 2012.
15 Facts About Yuriy Boyko
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Yuriy Boyko was born on 9 October 1958, in Horlivka, Donetsk Oblast.
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In 1981 Boyko graduated from the D Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, and in 2001 he graduated from Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University.
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From 1981 to 1999, Yuriy Boyko started as a master at an industrial site and rose to the title of Director General of the chemical plant Zarya in Rubizhne.
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In February 2002 Yuriy Boyko was appointed the chairman of NAC Naftogaz-Ukraine, and led the company until March 2005.
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Yuriy Boyko served as First Deputy Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine from July 2003 to March 2005 in the cabinet of then-Prime Minister Victor Yanukovych.
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On 11 March 2010 Yuriy Boyko was again appointed the Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine by Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.
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On 24 December 2012, Yuriy Boyko was promoted to the position of a Vice Prime Minister, responsible for ecology, natural resources, energy, coal industry and industrial policy.
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Yuriy Boyko launched a last-minute presidential campaign himself to oppose Dobkin, receiving less than a percentage point of the electorate.
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Yuriy Boyko was excluded from the Opposition Bloc faction, whose co-chair Oleksandr Vilkul accused him of having "betrayed their voters' interests" on 20 November 2018.
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Hence on 17 January 2019 Yuriy Boyko submitted documents to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine for registration as a self-nominated candidate.
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Yuriy Boyko's party was banned by the government following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine for its pro-Russian stances, despite it having opposed the invasion itself.
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Yuriy Boyko subsequently apologised and called Russian president Vladimir Putin a war criminal.
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Data shortly before the parliamentary elections in June 2019 suggested that Yuriy Boyko was the second-ranked pick to be Prime Minister of Ukraine behind eventual appointee Oleksiy Honcharuk.
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Yuriy Boyko was stripped of his Ukrainian state awards on 19 January 2025 by a decree of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.