Yana Zinkevych

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.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Vadymivna and the family name is Zinkevych.
Yana Zinkevych
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

(1995-07-02) 2 July 1995
Rivne, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine
Political partyEuropean Solidarity

Life

Zinkevych was born in 1995 in Rivne. She was educated at Навчально-виховний комплекс [3] and she took her medical training at the Дніпровський державний медичний університет[4]

During the Donbass War, Zinkevych was the commander of the Hospitallers Medical Battalion, having reportedly saved approximately 200 soldiers. She was seriously injured in a car accident in December 2015, and as a result she was left paralysed and she therefore uses a wheelchair. She is one of the recipients of the Ukrainian Order of Merit.[5] 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]

References
  1. (in Ukrainian) Factions were formed in the Rada, RBC Ukraine (29 August 2019)
  2. "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  3. "Наша випускниця Яна Зінкевич рятує українських бійців в зоні АТО – НВК Колегіум | Рівненський НВК "Колегіум"". 2018-10-20. Archived from the original on 2018-10-20. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  4. "Волонтер Яна Зінкевич стала студенткою медичної академії Дніпра | РБК-Україна". 2017-12-01. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
  5. Melkozerova, Veronika (1 December 2016). "Yana Zinkevych: She nearly loses her life saving soldiers, but her fighting spirit refuses to give up". Kyiv Post.
  6. "BBC 100 Women 2022: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
  7. (in Ukrainian) Small Yana Vadimyvna Zinkevych biography, Chesno


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