Yuliy Mamchur

Yuliy Mamchur
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
27 November 2014[1] – 24 July 2019
Personal details
Born
Yuliy Mamchur

(1971-08-15) 15 August 1971 (age 53)
Uman, Cherkasy, Ukrainian SSR
Political partyPetro Poroshenko Bloc
SpouseLarysa[2]
AwardsOrder of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, III class
Military service
Allegiance Ukraine
Branch/serviceUkrainian Air Force
Rank Colonel
Commands204th Tactical Aviation Brigade
62nd Fighter Aviation Regiment
Battles/warsRusso-Ukrainian War

Yuliy Valeriyovych Mamchur[a] (Ukrainian: Юлій Валерійович Мамчур) is a colonel in the Ukrainian Air Force who, for three weeks in March 2014, refused to abandon his post in Belbek, Crimea amidst the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation while surrounded and outnumbered by Russian forces.[3][4][5][6][7][8] Mamchur is also credited for restraining amiably and diplomatically both his soldiers and pro-Russian forces from escalating tensions further, asking both sides not to shoot each other while the situation defuses.

Mamchur became a national hero in Ukraine[9] and is considered a hero by Western media outlets. He is known to be calm, stoic and defiant.[10]

In the October 2014 Mamchur was elected into the Ukrainian parliament after being in the top 10 of the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[11] He was not re-elected in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[12]

  1. ^ CEC registers 357 newly elected deputies of 422 Archived December 4, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, National Radio Company of Ukraine (25 November 2014)
    Parliament to form leadership and coalition on November 27, UNIAN (26 November 2014)
  2. ^ "Colonel Mamchur remains in captivity – wife : UNIAN news". unian.info. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
  3. ^ Oliphant, Roland (5 Mar 2014). "Ukraine's hero colonel insists he was just doing his duty". Telegraph.
  4. ^ "Russian Soldiers to Ukrainian Troops: 'We Have Orders to Shoot'". mashable.com. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  5. ^ Reevell, Patrick (5 March 2014). "The New York Times". Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  6. ^ Walker, Shaun (4 March 2014). "Ukraine crisis: Russian warning shots could be as heated as this gets". The Guardian.
  7. ^ Loiko, Sergei (March 13, 2014). "Ukrainian colonel threatens to fire on Russian forces in Crimea". Los Angeles Times.
  8. ^ Oliphant, Roland (Mar 7, 2014). "The colonel who challenged Ukraine's invaders". New Zealand Herald.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference We knew it in Belbek was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ "As Russia Takes Over, Base in Crimea Is a Lonely Island - ABC News". abcnews.go.com. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference General official results of Rada election 2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference mamchuru2019e was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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