Andrey Aksenov

Andriy Anatoliyovych Aksyonov (; born February 2, 1971) is a member of the Verkhovna Rada, the national parliament of Ukraine. He joined the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada on May 19, 2021.

Biography He received higher education, he graduated from the Donetsk State Technical University. During his time in office as mayor, the War in Donbas started, during which the Donetsk People's Republic started to gain control over some of the villages in the Donetsk Oblast. During the 2015 Ukrainian local elections, which were held on 25 October 2015, he won 69% of the vote as a self-nominated candidate not affiliated with a political party. According to Babel he was very popular in the village for the development of international trade within the region, which led to a significant increase in the quality of life through funding by the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov of DTEK. From January to April 2019, however, he was temporarily removed from the post on the orders of the Kramatorsk City Court, having earlier been on house arrest. This stemmed from him being a suspect in the embezzlement of budget funds and forgery including forgery of documents to visit occupied Crimea, and was put on the wanted list in May 2018. In 2021, he was again elected as the mayor of Dobropillya having gained 58% of voters in the election. He attempted to run for a seat as a people's deputy in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, but took second place behind Ruslan Trebushkin of the Opposition Bloc. The candidate for people's deputies from the "Poryadok" party. During his campaign, he created a program called the "Miner's Character", which consisted of the points that he would not close mines and factories, reduce energy tariffs, bring the minimum old-age pension to the level of the minimum miners' pension, and to demand the government to resolve the ongoing War in the Donbas. A memorandum was signed in 2021 between the Association of Coal Cities and a French company called BETEN Ingenierie International, wherein the company would ensure water safety in the region due to mining, with BETEN being chosen because it had past experience in solving water purification issues. He is the member of the group of inter-parliamentary associations in Hungary and Germany in the rada. Aksyonov voluntarily ended his mandate, and did not cite a reason why.