Volodymyr Struk
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15 May 1964
Volodymyr Struk | |
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| Mayor of Kreminna | |
| In office 25 October 2020 – 2 March 2022 | |
| Member of the Verkhovna Rada | |
| In office 12 December 2012 – 27 November 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Volodymyr Oleksiiovych Struk 15 May 1964 |
| Died | 2 March 2022 (aged 57) |
| Party | Party of Regions OPZZh |
| Education | Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs |
Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Struk (Ukrainian: Володимир Олексійович Струк; 15 May 1964 – 2 March 2022) was a Ukrainian politician. He was kidnapped and killed in March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when he was serving as mayor of the city of Kreminna, Luhansk Oblast, at the time under control of the Ukrainian government.[1] His killing has been reported as a response to his pro-Russia separatist activities[2] and was denounced as an extrajudicial execution and a war crime by a representative of the internationally unrecognized Luhansk People's Republic.[3]
He graduated from Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs.
He was born on 15 May 1964 in the village of Lozivske, Slovianoserbsk Raion, Luhansk region. He worked as a 1st-class driver at a Oleksandrivsk auto enterprise, had a master of industrial driving training at the Voroshilovgrad driving school, was a 4th grade electric and gas welder at the "Luhanska No. 1" mine, head of the production department at "Metalousor" LLC (Luhansk), director of the Collective Agricultural Enterprise "Artil Center" (Luhansk).[4]
In 2001 he graduated from the Luhansk State University of Internal Affairs and in 2009 from the National Academy of Public Administration in Kyiv.[4]
From 1998 to 2006, he was deputy of the Luhansk City Council.[4] A member of the Party of Regions and later the Opposition Platform — For Life. Struk served in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) from 2012 to 2014.[5] He was elected in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election as an independent candidate in Luhansk Oblast's electoral district 104 with 39,98% of the vote.[6]
On 16 May 2014, criminal proceedings were initiated against Struk by the Luhansk Regional Prosecutor's Office. He was accused of having called for a change of the territorial boundaries of Ukraine.[7] In early 2020 the Security Service of Ukraine refused to hold Struk accountable for his participation in the creation of a "terrorist republic" in the Luhansk region.[8]
In the 25 October 2020 Ukrainian local elections Struk was elected mayor of Kreminna with 51.68% of the votes.[8][9]