Viktoria Vahnier

Viktoria Oleksandrivna Vahnier (; born 21 May 1981) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Servant of the People representing Ukraine's 183rd electoral district since 29 August 2019.

Early life and career Viktoria Oleksandrivna Vahnier was born on 21 May 1981 in the village of (then called Georgiyevka), in what was then the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. She is a graduate of the Kherson Basic Medical College as an obstetric paramedic, and from the National University of Kharkiv with a specialisation in medical business. She also specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology after completing an internship at the O. S. Luchanskyi City Clinical Hospital. She is currently studying at the Kherson National Technical University's public management and administration faculty.

From 2016, Vahnier was head doctor of the Oblast Rehabilitation Hospital of the Kherson Oblast Council. Prior to this, she headed the Oberih company, helping Ukrainian veterans of the war in Donbas, and she is additionally co-founder of the Ukrainian Life charitable foundation. She is the widow of Vladyslav Kovalov, a doctor who was killed in Donetsk Oblast.

In the Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine), Vahnier joined the Servant of the People faction and the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Health, Healthcare, and Health Insurance. She is also a member of the inter-factional associations South Ukraine and the Parliamentary Platform to Fight Tuberculosis.