Alona Shkrum

Alyona Ivanivna Shkrum (, born 2 January 1988)

In 2012 worked as an assistant to the attorneys of the law firms belonging to the Inner Temple Association (London). She was included in the party's electoral list in an open competition as a member of the Professional Government initiative.

Shkrum was re-elected for the same party (placed 22nd this time) in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

The 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Shkrum served as: Deputy member of the Ukrainian part of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee Member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Standing Committee on Peace and International Security. The main achievement of the work in the IPU Committee was the development of the text, amendments and presentation of the Resolution from Ukraine at the 140th IPU Assembly in Doha. It was the first Ukrainian resolution in the 130 years of the organization's existence: "On non-admissibility of using mercenaries and foreign fighters as a means of undermining peace, international security and the territorial integrity of States, and violating human rights". Co-chair of the group on inter-parliamentary relations with France Member of the groups on inter-parliamentary relations with the United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Turkey, Germany and Malta

The 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada In 2019 Shkrum was reelected, she served as: Member of the governing body (Bureau) of the Committee on Peace and International Security of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Co-chair of the group on inter-parliamentary relations with France Secretary of the groups on inter-parliamentary relations with Japan and the United Kingdom Member of the groups on inter-parliamentary relations with Canada, Australia, Singapore and Lithuania

On 2 December 2024 Shkrum officially requested the deprivation of her parliamentary mandate. The following day parliament withdrew her mandate. Later that day she was appointed Deputy-Minister of Communities and Territories Development. during the 146th Assembly in Bahrain in March 2023, she took part in a series of meetings with the states of the Global South and was one of the organizers of an event on demining the territories of Ukraine, which was attended by 25 countries; at the same time, a resolution was adopted on the protection of civilians in the context of a humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine.

Political stance during the war

Shkrum is one of the activists of the #UnrussiaUN movement and the petition "Kick Russia out of the UN" aimed at depriving the Russian Federation of its membership in the UN, which is illegitimate in view of Russia's war against Ukraine (according to Article 4 of the UN Charter) and the absence of a procedure for the country's accession to the organization after the collapse of the USSR. She expressed her position in an article in TIME, noting, in particular, that "without restoring the rule of law within its own organization, the UN will become more and more irrelevant, just as the League of Nations did when it failed to react to the Third Reich's invasion of Poland in 1939." She also called for Russia's expulsion from the UN in an article published in The Scotsman. She took an active part in the #bloodytrade campaign, addressed to Western companies that did not leave the Russian market after the start of a full-scale war against Ukraine. One of the achievements was the closure of Decathlon stores in Russia, while Auchan and Leroy Merlin refused to leave Russia. In addition, considerable attention was paid to the issue of not including the Russian state-owned diamond producer ALROSA in the EU sanctions packages against Russia 8 times in a row. She was one of the initiators of the global LightUpUkraine campaign, which was held on December 21, 2022, in a number of countries, during which the lights were turned off for one hour in festive locations, government agencies, shops and homes of ordinary citizens in solidarity with Ukrainians suffering from Russian strikes on critical infrastructure. The campaign was aimed at raising $10 million for power generators for Ukrainian hospitals.

Family Shkrum is married to Dmytro Natalukha. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Natalukha was a candidate for the party Servant of the People. The MP also holds the 2016 Diploma of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for her significant personal contribution to the reform of local self-government. Shkrum was honored by NV magazine as she was included in the Top 100 Successful Women of Ukraine in 2018. In 2019 the Ukrainian public campaign Chesno named Shkrum one of the top 25 most honest MPs of the 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada.