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Volia (Ukrainian: Воля; meaning freedom) is a Ukrainian political party registered in 2010. Its former name was "Party of Ukrainian youth" (Ukrainian: Партія української молоді).
In June 2014 Verkhovna Rada MP Yury Derevyanko was a member of the party. Derevyanko was one of the authors of the law on lustration in Ukraine. In June 2014 it appeared that Viktoria Siumar would lead the party; but she joined People's Front soon after.
The party participated in the 2014 elections to the Verkhovna Rada. In this election candidates of Volia were included in the election list of Self Reliance (one of its members on the party list of People's Front) and the party ran independent in constituencies (with a first-past-the-post electoral system in one round (candidate with the highest vote total wins)). This way the party won 1 parliamentary seat when Derevyanko won single-member districts number 87 (first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in Nadvirna. He won a parliamentary seat by winning this constituency with 69.67% of the votes. Following the election Derevyanko stated the party would starts its own parliamentary group to defend its “principles, values and political promises”; because of this other elected (into parliament) members left the party on 9 November 2014. However, no such faction was created.