Ovchynnikova Yulia Yuriyivna

Ecologist Member of Parliament from "Servant of the People"

A native of Donetsk (born 1985, family from Snizhne), Candidate of Biological Sciences, acting dean of the biology faculty at the relocated Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University in Vinnytsia. Member of Parliament of the IX convocation (№84 on the “Servant of the People” list, non-partisan), chair of the subcommittee on forest resources of the Committee on Environmental Policy, member of the delegation to PACE, co-chair of the NGO “Humane Country” (animal protection, initiated by UAnimals).

Opposed the faction’s line on ORDLO

In March 2020, publicly opposed the creation of a consultative council in the TCG including representatives of “ORDLO” — contrary to her own faction’s position.

Only criticism: law on animal registration

In 2020, she co-initiated a draft law on mandatory registration of domestic animals; activists from the “Antitrust League” saw a potential corruption scheme in it — however, the matter did not go beyond public criticism. She is a scholarship holder of the Pinchuk Foundation and the Presidential Program; co-founder of the trading company “Adi Trade.”