Mykola Halushko

Mykola Leonidovych Halushko (; born 5 December 1979) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 2019 from Ukraine's 97th electoral district, located in Kyiv Oblast. He is a member of Servant of the People.

Early life and career Mykola Leonidovych Halushko was born on 5 December 1979 in the village of Argayash, in the Chelyabinsk Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He graduated from the National Academy of Internal Affairs with a specialisation in jurisprudence, and from the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics with a specialisation in economics.

From 1997 to 2006, Halushko was an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Following this, he became executive director of Halid PP, a private security company, where he worked until 2012. He rejoined the company in 2017 as its director, and also worked as an adviser to the director of Ukrspryt, Ukraine's state alcohol company, from that year.

Political career In the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election, Halushko was the head of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's campaign in Ukraine's 97th electoral district, located in Kyiv Oblast. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election four months later, Halushko was the candidate of Servant of the People, Zelenskyy's party, in the 97th electoral district. At the time of the election, he was an independent.

On 29 August 2019, Halushko was formally inaugurated as a People's Deputy of Ukraine. He joined the Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Committee, and became a member of Servant of the People in November 2019.

The press service of Servant of the People defended Halushko following the incident, claiming that former Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov had leaked the video in response to Halushko voting for his removal. Davyd Arakhamia, head of Servant of the People in the Verkhovna Rada, further claimed that the entire incident may have been engineered by Avakov in response to the vote.

Accusations of corruption and absenteeism On 19 November 2021, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention summoned Halushko, accusing him of understating the money in his financial declaration by ₴1.45 million (approximately US$38,988), comprising donations he had made to his parliamentary election campaign and a land plot in the village of Hoholiv.

The anti-corruption non-governmental organisation Chesno has additionally accused Halushko of collecting pay without working, noting that between January 2022 and May 2023, he missed 46% of sessions of the Verkhovna Rada.