Yana Zinkevych | |
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Яна Вадимівна Зінкевич | |
Member of the Verkhovna Rada | |
Assumed office 29 August 2019 [1] | |
Personal details | |
Born | Yana Vadimyvna Zinkevych 2 July 1995 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.
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 to found the Hospitallers Medical Battalion and remains its commander. She has personally saved more than 200 wounded soldiers. [5] 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 [6] and in 2022 she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. [7]
Zinkevych was chosen as a European Solidarity party's representative (in the 9th convocation of the Verhovna Rada) at the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. [8] She was placed 7th on the party's election list. [2]