Dmytro Tymchuk
| Dmytro Tymchuk | |
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| Дмитро Тимчук | |
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| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
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Assumed office 27 November 2014 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
27 June 1972 Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, USSR |
| Nationality |
 Ukraine |
| Political party | People's Front |
| Alma mater | Lviv Higher Military-Political School |
| Occupation | Military expert, journalist, politician |
| Website | sprotyv |
Dmytro Borysovych Tymchuk (Ukrainian: Дмитро́ Бори́сович Тимчу́к, born 27 June 1972) is a Member of parliament of Ukraine, a Ukrainian military expert and blogger, an officer of Ukrainian military reserve (підполковник), and one of the coordinators of the Information Resistance blog. During the ongoing 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, he became one of the most popular Ukrainian online activists and was extensively cited on the situation in the country.
In 2014 Tymchuk was elected to the Ukrainian parliament for People's Front.
Tymchuk was born 27 June 1972 in Chita, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. From 1978 to 1983, he lived in the German Democratic Republic due to his father's service in the Soviet Army and then moved to Berdychiv, Ukrainian SSR, where he spent the rest of his youth. (Both Russia and Ukraine were part of the Soviet Union from 1920 until Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991.) In 1995, Tymchuk graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Lviv Higher Military-Political School.
Tymchuk served in the Ukrainian army from 1995 to 1997 and then worked at the headquarters of the National Guard of Ukraine until 2000. From 2000 to 2012, he worked in various divisions of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. He served in Iraq, Kosovo, and Lebanon. His highest military rank is Lieutenant colonel.
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