Oleh Barna

Oleh Stepanovych Barna (; 18 April 1967 – 17 April 2023) was a Ukrainian human rights activist and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Barna fought during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and was killed in action on 17 April 2023. Honorary Citizen of Ternopil (2023, posthumously). Biography Barna served in the Soviet Army from 1985 to 1987. In October 1990 Barna, as a 5th-year student, took part in the hunger strikes of the Revolution on Granite. From 1991 to 2014 Barna worked as a teacher of mathematics, physics, computer science, and pre-service training in Rydoduby and Bilobozhnytsia in Ternopil Oblast's Chortkiv Raion. In 2000, he was an organizer of the Ukraine without Kuchma protests. In the same year he took part in by-elections for the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) as a candidate in the 167th electoral district in Ternopil Oblast, but he withdrew his candidacy in favour of . (Zhyzhko was a candidate of Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists and failed to get elected to parliament in this election.)