Dmitry Tymchuk set up the Center of Military and Political Research in Kyiv. He served in the Army air defense from 1995-1998, the National Guard from 1998-2000 and in the Defense Ministry in subsequent years on missions to Iraq, Lebanon and Kosovo. His blogs at the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine were translated from Ukrainian into English by Voices of Ukraine. He was elected to parliament in 2014 as part of the 80-member People’s Front faction. He died from a gunshot wound to the head on June 19. Investigators did not immediately classify the death as a homicide, accident or suicide.
