Yana Zinkevych

Ukrainian politician and military veteran

Yana Zinkevych
Яна Вадимівна Зінкевич
Zinkevych at the 2019 March of Defenders

Member of the Verkhovna Rada
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 August 2019^[1]

Personal details
Born	Yana Vadimyvna Zinkevych (1995-07-02) 2 July 1995 (age 28) Rivne, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine
Political party	European Solidarity

Yana Vadymivna Zinkevych (Ukrainian: Яна Вадимівна Зінкевич, born 2 July 1995^[2] in Rivne) is a paraplegic Ukrainian member of parliament and a military veteran. She was chosen as one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2022.

Life

Zinkevych was born in 1995 in Rivne. She was educated at Навчально-виховний комплекс [uk] ^[3] and took her medical training at the Дніпровський державний медичний університет [uk]^[4]

During the Donbass War, Zinkevych was the commander of the Hospitallers Medical Battalion, which saved approximately 200 soldiers. She was seriously injured in a car accident in December 2015; as a result she was paralysed and uses a wheelchair. She is one of the recipients of the Ukrainian Order of Merit^[5] and in 2022 she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.^[6]

Zinkevych was chosen as a European Solidarity party's representative (in the 9th convocation of the Verhovna Rada) at the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.^[7] She was placed 7th on the party's election list.^[2]

References

^ (in Ukrainian) Factions were formed in the Rada, RBC Ukraine (29 August 2019)
^ ^a ^b "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
^ "Наша випускниця Яна Зінкевич рятує українських бійців в зоні АТО – НВК Колегіум | Рівненський НВК "Колегіум"". 20 October 2018. Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
^ "Волонтер Яна Зінкевич стала студенткою медичної академії Дніпра | РБК-Україна". 1 December 2017. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
^ Melkozerova, Veronika (1 December 2016). "Yana Zinkevych: She nearly loses her life saving soldiers, but her fighting spirit refuses to give up". Kyiv Post.
^ "BBC 100 Women 2022: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
^ (in Ukrainian) Small Yana Vadimyvna Zinkevych biography, Chesno