Ihor Mosiychuk | |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Office: | People's Deputy of Ukraine |
Term Start: | 27 November 2014[1] |
Term End: | 24 July 2019 |
Birth Date: | 5 May 1972 |
Birth Place: | Lubny, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality: | Ukrainian |
Spouse: | Vladlena Leonidivna Karpenko |
Party: | Svoboda (2004-2010) Social-National Assembly (2010-2014) Radical Party (2014-2019) |
Children: | 2 |
Ihor Volodymyrovych Mosiychuk (uk|Ігор Володимирович Мосійчук, born 5 May 1972, Lubny, Poltava Oblast) is a Ukrainian journalist and far-right politician, a leading figure in the organized social-nationalist movement, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Vechirnaya Vasilkov, and a participant in the Vasylkiv terrorists case. He is a former[2] deputy of Verkhovna Rada from Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko.
In early 2014, Mosiychuk served as the deputy commander of the Azov Battalion. After he made Jew-baiting comments about Ihor Kolomoisky, he was removed.[3]
On 25 October 2017, a parked scooter exploded in Kyiv near the building of Espreso TV, which was, according to an investigation by the Ukrainian police, an assassination attempt on him.[4] The blast killed his bodyguard and another man. Mosiychuk and a political scientist Vitaliy Bala along with another woman were injured.[5] [4]
Mosiychuk's Radical Party lost all its parliamentary seats in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, because it gained about 1%, too little to clear the 5% election threshold, and also did not win an electoral district seat.[6]