Oleksii Goncharenko

Oleksii Goncharenko is a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and Vice President of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. In Parliament, he is a member of the ‘European Solidarity group’, and head of the caucuses ‘For Democratic Belarus’, and ‘For Free Caucasus’. After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Oleksii Goncharenko joined the country’s civilian Territorial Defence Forces for the first month. He was included in the sanctioned persons lists of the Russian Federation. MP Goncharenko is a founder of Ukraine’s largest network of educational-cultural centres, the Goncharenko Centres, which have become volunteer hubs since February 2022. Не has been fighting against Russian propaganda, and publishes widely in international media in order to bring the truth to the world about Ukraine. MP Goncharenko is a guest speaker at Yale University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Pennsylvania.