Yana Zinkevych | |
Native Name: | Яна Вадимівна Зінкевич |
Native Name Lang: | uk |
Office: | Member of the Verkhovna Rada |
Term Start: | 29 August 2019[1] |
Birth Name: | Yana Vadimyvna Zinkevych |
Birth Date: | 2 July 1995 |
Birth Place: | Rivne, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine |
Party: | European Solidarity |
Yana Vadymivna Zinkevych (uk|Яна Вадимівна Зінкевич, born 2 July 1995 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 [2] and took her medical training at the Dnipro State Medical University (Дніпровський державний медичний університет).[3]
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.[4] 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[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.[8]