{{short description|Ukrainian activist, soldier, and politician}} {{distinguish|Yury Tymoshenko}} {{Family name hatnote|Volodymyrovych|Tymoshenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Yurii Tymoshenko | native_name = {{nobold|Юрій Тимошенко}} | native_name_lang = uk | image = Tymoshenko Yuriy.jpg | caption = Tymoshenko in 2015 | office = People's Deputy of Ukraine | term_start = 27 November 2014 | term_end = 29 August 2019 | predecessor = Oles Donii | successor = Andriy Ivanchuk | constituency = Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, No. 88 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1961|4|3|df=yes}} | birth_place = Divnoye, Stavropol Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia) | party = People's Front | other_party = Independent | allegiance = Ukraine | branch = National Guard of Ukraine | service_years = 2014–2019 | unit = General Kulchytskyi First Operative Battalion | battles = {{tree list}} * Russo-Ukrainian War ** War in Donbas {{tree list/end}} }}
'''Yurii Volodymyrovych Tymoshenko''' ({{langx|uk|Ю́рій Володи́мирович Тимоше́нко}}; born 3 April 1961) is a Ukrainian activist, soldier, and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019, representing Ukraine's 88th electoral district in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. Prior to his election, he was a soldier in the National Guard of Ukraine.
== Early life and career == Yurii Tymoshenko was born on 3 April 1961 in the village of Divnoye, Stavropol Krai, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. He graduated from Ivano-Frankivsk Cooperative Professional and Technical School with a specialisation in sales consulting. From 1982 to 1983 he was a delivery driver for a Kolomyia-based catering service, before working at the Central Directorate of Trade in the Ministry of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1983 to 1985. Over the next four years, he was employed at multiple kolkhozes.<ref name="LB">{{Cite news |date=30 October 2019 |title=Тимошенко Юрій Володимирович |trans-title=Tymoshenko, Yurii Volodymyrovych |url=https://lb.ua/file/person/1784_timoshenko_yuriy_volodimirovich.html |access-date=7 July 2024 |work=LB.ua |language=uk}}</ref>
Tymoshenko was a supporter of the 1989–1991 Ukrainian revolution. He was part of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and the Memorial society.<ref name="LB"/> He was also a member of the {{ill|All-Ukrainian OUN-UPA Brotherhood|uk|Всеукраїнське братство ОУН-УПА}}.<ref name="Chesno">{{Cite web |title=Тимошенко Юрій Володимирович |trans-title=Tymoshenko, Yurii Volodymyrovych |url=https://www.chesno.org/politician/22705/ |access-date=7 July 2024 |website=Chesno |language=uk}}</ref> Following the revolution, he became a painter at the Budivelnyk cooperative, where he worked until 1993. He was a delivery driver for the Ukrainian Publishing Union from 2006 to 2013.<ref name="LB"/>
Tymoshenko became a member of the Kolomyishchyna {{ill|Maidan Self-Defence|lt=Self-Defence|uk|Самооборона Майдану}} following Euromaidan. He joined the National Guard of Ukraine in May 2014<ref name="Chesno"/> and fought in the War in Donbas.<ref name="Romaliiska">{{Cite news |last=Romaliiska |first=Iryna |date=8 March 2019 |title="На моєму шляху встала якась жінка". Кандидат Тимошенко про кандидатку Тимошенко |trans-title="A woman who stands in my way": Candidate Tymoshenko about Candidate Tymoshenko |url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/jurij-tymoshenko-kandydat/29811066.html |access-date=7 July 2024 |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |language=uk}}</ref>
== Political career == Tymoshenko was the People's Front candidate in Ukraine's 88th electoral district, located in and around Kolomyia, during the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. He was successfully elected with 29.32% of the vote, defeating incumbent independent People's Deputy of Ukraine Oles Donii.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Одномандатний виборчий округ №88 (Івано-Франківська область) |trans-title=Single-mandate electoral district No. 88 (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) |url=https://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2014/wp040pt001f01=910pf7331=88.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729221228/https://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2014/wp040pt001f01=910pf7331=88.html |archive-date=29 July 2019 |access-date=7 July 2024 |website=Central Election Commission of Ukraine |language=uk}}</ref> In the Verkhovna Rada, Tymoshenko was a member of the Committee on Prevention and Counteraction of Corruption.<ref name="Chesno"/>
=== 2019 presidential campaign === Tymoshenko was registered as a candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election on 6 February 2019.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 2019 |title=Кандидатов в президенты уже 37 - зарегистрированы Юрий Тимошенко, Новак и Журавлев |trans-title=Already 37 candidates for president - Yurii Tymoshenko, Novak, and Zhuravlev registered |url=https://interfax.com.ua/news/election/564242.html |access-date=7 July 2024 |work=Interfax |language=ru}}</ref> Although his bid was considered a long shot by pollsters according to Euronews,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Liubchenkova |first=Natalia |date=8 February 2019 |title=44 candidates are running for president of Ukraine: two are called Y.V. Tymoshenko |url=https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/08/44-candidates-are-running-for-president-of-ukraine-two-are-called-y-v-tymoshenko |access-date=7 July 2024 |work=Euronews}}</ref> Tymoshenko's candidacy acquired attention as he had the same surname and initials as Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the Batkivshchyna party and a leading candidate in the election. The latter Tymoshenko's campaign accused the former of being a "clone" candidate, with the intention of confusing voters and stealing votes from her in an effort to prevent her from winning the election. Yurii Tymoshenko disputed the allegations, noting that he had declared his intention to run for president in a 2017 Facebook post and claiming that he had always wanted to be president. He denied questions by the BBC as to whether or not he had been given money to run, stating that he had taken out a loan for the bank and spent his family's earnings on it.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 February 2019 |title=Ukraine election: Funny business at the polls |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47333307 |access-date=7 July 2024 |work=BBC}}</ref>
Tymoshenko was removed from the People's Front parliamentary faction on 17 January 2019, after announcing his decision to run.<ref name="Chesno"/> He was additionally targeted by two individuals who attempted to bribe him with ₴5 million in return for the withdrawal of his candidacy. They were subsequently arrested.<ref name="Romaliiska"/> Yurii Tymoshenko was eliminated in the first round of the election, gathering 117,693 votes. Yulia Tymoshenko was also eliminated with 2,532,452, three percent behind incumbent President Petro Poroshenko.<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 March 2019 |title=Протокол Центральної виборчої комісії про результати голосування у день виборів Президента України |url=https://www.cvk.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/vpu_2019_protokol_cvk_31032019.pdf |access-date=7 July 2024 |website=Central Election Commission of Ukraine |language=uk}}</ref>
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