Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk is a lawyer, business mogul, and politician from Ukraine who was elected People’s Deputy on August 29, 2019.
He is the chairman of Ukrainian Choice, a pro-Russian political party that opposes Ukraine’s membership in the European Union.
Medvedchuk served in the Ukrainian parliament from 1997 to 2002.
Medvedchuk was the former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2005.
He stayed out of national politics after then till 2018.
Medvedchuk fled house arrest on February 28, 2022, four days after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022,
He went missing right after.
He was removed from his role as co-chairman of the Opposition Platform For Life on March 8, 2022.
The Ukrainian secret service arrested Medvedchuk on treason charges on April 12, 2022.
Viktor Medvedchuk parents: Meet Volodymyr Medvedchuk, Faina Hryhorivna Hulko
Viktor was born to Volodymyr Medvedchuk and Faina Hryhorivna Hulko in Pochet, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian SFSR.
His parents are unknown, although he comes from a wealthy and well-respected family.
