Yehor Cherniev

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Yehor Volodymyrovych Cherniev (Ukrainian: Єгор Володимирович Чернєв) (born February 5, 1985) is a Ukrainian politician and current People’s Deputy in the Verkhovna Rada. He is a member of the Servant of the People party and serves as Deputy Chairman of the Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence. He is also the Chairman of Ukraine’s Permanent Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. From 2019 to 2022, he was the Deputy Chairman of the Digital Transformation Committee.

Early life and education:
Cherniev was born in Berdiansk, then part of the Soviet Union. He studied public relations management at Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts (graduated 2007), business economics at Kyiv National Economic University (2008), and earned a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Management from King’s College London. After the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War began, he joined the National Guard of Ukraine.

Political career:
Cherniev was elected to Ukraine’s parliament in 2019 as number 26 on the Servant of the People list, though he was an independent at the time. He has held senior roles in committees and contributed to national security discussions. In 2020, during debates over the anti-Kolomoyskyi banking law, he claimed MPs received text messages from a Russian-linked number to influence their votes. Later that year, he called for Vitold Fokin to be removed from the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine. In January 2021, he was the first Servant of the People MP to publicly support removing Oleksandr Dubinsky from the faction due to U.S. sanctions.