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 customs, 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 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]

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"". 20 October 2018. Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  4. "Волонтер Яна Зінкевич стала студенткою медичної академії Дніпра | РБК-Україна". 1 December 2017. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  5. "Minister of Economy, founder of Hospitallers battalion, and others: 4 Ukrainian women were included in Time 100 Next list". Ukrainska Pravda. 13 September 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  6. Melkozerova, Veronika (1 December 2016). "Yana Zinkevych: She nearly loses her life saving soldiers, but her fighting spirit refuses to give up". Kyiv Post.
  7. "BBC 100 Women 2022: Who is on the list this year?". BBC News. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
  8. (in Ukrainian) Small Yana Vadimyvna Zinkevych biography, Chesno
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