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Yana Vadimyvna Zinkevych ( uk, Яна Вадимівна Зінкевич, born 2 July 1995 in
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Yana Vadimyvna Zinkevych ( uk, Яна Вадимівна Зінкевич, born 2 July 1995 in Rivne
Rivne (; uk, Рівне ),) also known as Rovno (Russian: Ровно; Polish: Równe; Yiddish: ראָוונע), is a city in western Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Rivne Oblast (province), as well as the surrounding Rivne Raio ...
) is a paraplegic Ukrainian member of parliament
In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Th ...
and a military veteran. She was chosen as one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2022.
Life
She was born in 1995 in Rivne. She was educated at and she took her medical training at the 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. In 2022 she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. She was chosen as the European Solidarity party's representative in the 9th convocation of the Verhovna Rada at the2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parliament on 21 Ma ...
.Chesno
Chesno ( uk, Чесно, lit=honestly, fairly) is a Ukrainian public campaign that emerged late 2011 to advance a fair election process. It is widely known for its critical analysis and evaluation of politicians and the Verkhovna Rada (parliame ...
She was placed 7th on the party's election list.
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