Yana Zinkevych
Yana Zinkevych | |
|---|---|
Яна Зінкевич | |
Zinkevych at the 2019 March of Defenders | |
| Member of the Verkhovna Rada | |
| Assumed office 29 August 2019[1] | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 July 1995 Rivne, Ukraine |
| Political party | European Solidarity |
Yana Vadymivna Zinkevych (Ukrainian: Яна Вадимівна Зінкевич, born 2 July 1995)[2] is a Ukrainian member of parliament and a paraplegic 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 took her medical training at the Dnipro State Medical University (Дніпровський державний медичний університет).[4]
In 2014, when the Russo-Ukrainian War broke out, Zinkevych interrupted her university studies and joined the right-wing to far-right coalition Right Sector as a fighter,[5] later founding the Hospitallers Medical Battalion and remains its commander. She has personally saved more than 200 wounded soldiers.[6] In December 2015, she was seriously injured in a car accident; as a result she was paralysed and uses a wheelchair. She is one of the recipients of the Ukrainian Order of Merit[7] and in 2022 she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.[8]
Zinkevych was chosen as a European Solidarity party's representative (in the 9th convocation of the Verhovna Rada) at the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[9] She was placed 7th on the party's election list.[2]
She is the Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army,[10] which includes the Hospitallers battalion.
See also
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.
- ^ "Interview with Yana Zinkevich". 30 May 2024. Retrieved 22 May 2025.
- ^ "Minister of Economy, founder of Hospitallers battalion, and others: 4 Ukrainian women were included in Time 100 Next list". Ukrainska Pravda. 13 September 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ 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
- ^ "УДА Головна". Retrieved 16 May 2025.
External links
- Media related to Yana Zinkevych at Wikimedia Commons