Nationality Ukrainian Siblings Irina Golub Education Lviv University | Role Member of Parliament Name Volodymyr Parasyuk | |
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Born 9 July 1987 (age 36)
Maidan, Zhovkva Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR ( 1987-07-09 ) Similar People Semen Semenchenko, Borys Filatov, Dmytro Yarosh, Oleh Lyashko, Mykhailo Havryliuk Profiles | ||
MPs brawl in Ukraine parliament
Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasyuk (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Зіно́війович Парасю́к, born July 9, 1987 in Maidan village, Zhovkva Raion) is a Ukrainian public figure.
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Biography
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 famous for his Euromaidan speech on February 21, 2014, in which he rejected the terms of an agreement between opposition leaders and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. In his speech, Parasiuk 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.
Later, Parasyuk fought in the war in Donbass as a member of the Dnipro Battalion, where he claims he was taken prisoner by the Russian forces during the battle of Ilovaisk and illegally moved to Rostov on Don. He was later released with other Ukrainian prisoners of war.
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 Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.
He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada during the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. As an independent candidate, Parasyuk won a parliamentary seat by winning the electoral district of Yavoriv with 56.56% of the votes. In parliament he joined the inter-factional group Ukrop.