Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasyuk (; born 9 July 1987) is a Ukrainian military commander and politician who served as a

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from 27 November 2014 to 29 August 2019. Previously, he served as a member of the Dnipro Battalion and as a protest leader during

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Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasyuk was born on 9 July 1987 in the village of Maidan, in Ukraine's

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. Parasyuk took part in the

protests, where he was a ''sotnik'' (commander) of a group of defenders of the Maidan (a ''sotnia''). He became known for his Euromaidan speech on 21 February 2014, in which he rejected the terms of an

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between opposition leaders and Ukrainian President

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. In his speech, Parasyuk delivered an ultimatum, demanding Yanukovych's resignation and vowing his group would storm Yanukovych's

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as a member of the Dnipro Battalion, where he was taken prisoner by Russian forces during the

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and illegally moved to

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. He was later released with other Ukrainian prisoners of war. He studied in the Faculty of Electronics at Lviv University, specializing in physical and biomedical electronics, but did not graduate from the program. He later studied banking, and in 2016, he graduated from Lviv University with a bachelor's degree in economics. Parasyuk was a member of the Student Brotherhood of Lviv University and the far-right Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists. He was elected to the

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during the

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. As an independent candidate, Parasyuk won a parliamentary seat in Ukraine's 122nd electoral district with 56.56% of the vote. In the Verkhovna Rada, he joined the inter-factional group Ukrainian Association of Patriots (UKROP).Justice Ministry registered the party Kolomoisky

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(18 June 2015) The

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refused Parasyuk to register as a candidate for the snap

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because the required deposit was made by an "inappropriate person". This error could not be corrected because Parasyuk submitted his documents for registration on the last day it was possible.

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