Yana Zinkevych | |
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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 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 Дніпровський державний медичний університет[4]
During the Donbass War, Zinkevych was the commander of the Hospitallers Medical Battalion, which saved approximately 200 soldiers. She was seriously injured in a car accident in December 2015; as a result she was paralysed and uses a wheelchair. She is one of the recipients of the Ukrainian Order of Merit[5] and 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]