Volodymyr Parasyuk

Ukrainian politician and military commander

Володимир Парасюк

Parasyuk in February 2014

People's Deputy of UkraineIn office
27 November 2014^[1] – 29 August 2019^[2]Preceded byVasyl PazynakSucceeded byPavlo BakunetsConstituencyLviv Oblast, No. 122 Personal detailsBorn (1987-07-09) 9 July 1987 (age 36)
Maidan, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)Political partyIndependentOther political
affiliationsUKROPMilitary serviceAllegianceUkraineBranch/serviceSpecial Tasks Patrol PoliceYears of service2014UnitDnipro BattalionBattles/wars

Russo-Ukrainian War
- War in Donbas (2014–2022)
  - Battle of Ilovaisk

Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasyuk (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Зіно́війович Парасю́к; born 9 July 1987) is a Ukrainian military commander and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 27 November 2014 to 29 August 2019. Previously, he served as a member of the Dnipro Battalion and as a protest leader during Euromaidan.

Biography

Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasyuk was born on 9 July 1987 in the village of Maidan, in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast.^[3]

Parasyuk took part in the Euromaidan protests, where he was a sotnik (commander) of a group of defenders of the Maidan (a sotnia). He 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. In his speech, Parasyuk delivered an ultimatum, demanding Yanukovych's resignation and vowing his group would storm Yanukovych's Mezhyhirya Residence at 10 a.m. the next day without it. The next morning, Yanukovych left the country.^[4]

Later, Parasyuk fought in the war in Donbas as a member of the Dnipro Battalion,^[3]^[5]^[6]^[7] where he was taken prisoner by Russian forces during the battle of Ilovaisk and illegally moved to Rostov on Don. He was later released with other Ukrainian prisoners of war.^[when?]

He studied in the Faculty of Electronics at Lviv University, specializing in physical and biomedical electronics, but did not graduate from the program. He later studied banking, and in 2016, he graduated from Lviv University with a bachelor's degree in economics.

Parasyuk was a member of the Student Brotherhood of Lviv University and the far-right Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.^[8] He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada during the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.^[9] As an independent candidate, Parasyuk won a parliamentary seat in Ukraine's 122nd electoral district with 56.56% of the vote.^[10]^[3]^[11] In the Verkhovna Rada, he joined the inter-factional group Ukrainian Association of Patriots (UKROP).^[12]

The Central Election Commission of Ukraine refused Parasyuk to register as a candidate for the snap 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election because the required deposit was made by an "inappropriate person".^[13] This error could not be corrected because Parasyuk submitted his documents for registration on the last day it was possible.^[13]

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References

^ CEC registers 357 newly elected deputies of 422 Archived 2014-11-26 at the Wayback Machine, National Radio Company of Ukraine (25 November 2014)
Parliament to form leadership and coalition on November 27, UNIAN (26 November 2014)
^ "Козак Гаврилюк, сотник Володимир Парасюк, провідник Дмитро Ярош та інші герої Революції Гідності". Ukrayinska Pravda.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Одномандатный избирательный округ № 122" [Candidates and winner for the seat in constituency 122 in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election] (in Ukrainian). RBK Ukraine. Archived from the original on 5 November 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
^ "Parasyuk to run for parliament". 20 September 2014.
^ Balmforth, Richard (25 February 2014). "In Ukraine turbulence, a lad from Lviv becomes the toast of Kiev". Reuters.
^ Rupert, James (14 March 2014). "Beyond the Crisis, Hope for Ukraine". Atlantic Council.
^ "Frontline politics: Ukraine fighters run for parliament". Agence France-Presse. 21 October 2014. Archived from the original on 11 December 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
^ Staff, About the Source Euromaidan Press (25 February 2014). "The sotnyk who turned it around: We had to break them down". Euromaidan Press. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
^ "Парасюк Володимир Зіновійович" [Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasiuk] (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
^ "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
^ Bateson, Ian (5 December 2014). "Video of first brawl in Verkhovna Rada becomes a YouTube hit". Kyiv Post.
^ Justice Ministry registered the party Kolomoisky, Korrespondent.net (18 June 2015)
^ ^a ^b "Парасюка не зареєструвала кандидатом в депутати із-за застави від "неналежної особи"". glavcom.ua. 24 June 2019.

"Парасюк Володимир Зіновійович" [Volodymyr Parasiuk very short bio] (in Ukrainian). RBK Ukraine. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.</ref>