Yana Zinkevych
Яна Вадимівна Зінкевич
Zinkevych at the 2019 March of Defenders
Member of the Verkhovna Rada
Assumed office
29 August 2019[1]
Personal details
Born
Yana Vadimyvna Zinkevych

(1995-07-02) 2 July 1995
Rivne, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine
Political partyEuropean 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 [3] and she took her medical training at the Дніпровський державний медичний університет[4]

During the Donbass War, Zinkevych was the commander of the Hospitallers Medical Battalion, having reportedly saved approximately 200 soldiers. She was seriously injured in a car accident in December 2015, and as a result she was left paralysed and she therefore uses a wheelchair. She is one of the recipients of the Ukrainian Order of Merit.[5] 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

  1. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Factions were formed in the Rada, RBC Ukraine (29 August 2019)
  2. 1 2 "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  3. ↑ "Наша випускниця Яна Зінкевич рятує українських бійців в зоні АТО – НВК Колегіум | Рівненський НВК "Колегіум"". 2018-10-20. Archived from the original on 2018-10-20. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  4. ↑ "Волонтер Яна Зінкевич стала студенткою медичної академії Дніпра | РБК-Україна". 2017-12-01. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  5. ↑ Melkozerova, Veronika (1 December 2016). "Yana Zinkevych: She nearly loses her life saving soldiers, but her fighting spirit refuses to give up". Kyiv Post.
  6. ↑ "BBC 100 Women 2022: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  7. ↑ (in Ukrainian) Small Yana Vadimyvna Zinkevych biography, Chesno
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