Yuliy Mamchur
Yuliy Mamchur | |
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| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 27 November 2014 – 24 July 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Yuliy Mamchur 15 August 1971 |
| Party | Petro Poroshenko Bloc |
| Spouse | Larysa |
| Awards | |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Ukraine |
| Branch/service | Ukrainian Air Force |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Commands | 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade 62nd Fighter Aviation Regiment |
| Battles/wars | Russo-Ukrainian War |
Yuliy Valeriyovych Mamchur (Ukrainian: Юлій Валерійович Мамчур; born 15 August 1971) is a colonel in the Ukrainian Air Force who, for three weeks in March 2014, refused to abandon his post at the Belbek Air Base, Crimea amidst the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation while surrounded and outnumbered by Russian forces. 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 at each other while the situation defuses.
Mamchur became a national hero in Ukraine and is considered a hero by Western media outlets. He is known to be calm, stoic and defiant.
In the October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, Mamchur was elected into the Ukrainian parliament after being in the top 10 of the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. He was not re-elected in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.