Oleksiy Zhuravko
Oleksiy Zhuravko | |
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Олексій Журавко | |
Zhuravko in 2019 | |
| Member of the Verkhovna Rada | |
| In office 25 May 2006 – 12 December 2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Oleksiy Valeriyovych Zhuravko 21 April 1974 |
| Died | 25 September 2022 (aged 48) Kherson, Ukraine |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union (1974–1991) Ukraine (1991–2022) Russia (2022) |
| Party | For United Ukraine! (2002) Party of Regions (2006–2022) United Russia (2022) |
| Spouse | Anzhela |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | Kherson State University |
| Awards | Order of Merit (2000, 2004) |
Oleksiy Valeriyovych Zhuravko (Ukrainian: Олексій Валерійович Журавко, Russian: Алексей Валерьевич Журавко, romanized: Aleksey Valeryevich Zhuravko; 21 April 1974 – 25 September 2022) was a Ukrainian and Russian politician who was a member of Ukraine's national parliament Verkhovna Rada from 2006 to 2012. He was a member of the pro-Russian Party of Regions from 2006. Zhuravko moved to Russia in 2015. He acquired Russian citizenship and joined the United Russia party in July 2022. He died in September 2022 in a missile attack in Kherson during the Ukrainian southern counteroffensive.
Zhuravko was virtually posthumously convicted of high treason in Halytskyi District Court of Lviv in February 2026. Ukrainian authorities cannot officially confirm the death of Oleksiy Zhuravko, so he was tried as a living person and sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison with confiscation of all his property.