Oleh Barna

Barna served in the Soviet Army from 1985 to 1987.[4]

In October 1990 Barna, as a 5th-year student, took part in the hunger strikes of the Revolution on Granite.[4]

From 1991 to 2014 Barna worked as a teacher of mathematics, physics, computer science, and pre-service training in Rydoduby and Bilobozhnytsia in Ternopil Oblast's Chortkiv Raion.[5] In 2000, he was an organizer of the Ukraine without Kuchma protests.[5] In the same year he took part in by-elections for the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) as a candidate in the 167th electoral district in Ternopil Oblast, but he withdrew his candidacy in favour of Serhii Zhyzhko.[5] (Zhyzhko was a candidate of Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists and failed to get elected to parliament in this election.[6])

Barna was Mayor of Nahirianka from 2002 to 2010.[5]

In the second round of 2004 Ukrainian presidential election Barna worked in the electoral headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko in Kharkiv Oblast's Chuhuiv Raion.[5] In the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election Barna headed the electoral headquarters for Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in Chuhuiv Raion.[5]

Barna took part in the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests and was seriously hurt during clashes on 18 February 2014 at Mariinskyi Park.[1]

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Barna was a candidate for the Petro Poroshenko Bloc in electoral district 167.[1] He was elected with 27.51%[7] of the total votes cast in the district a Deputy of Ukraine of the 8th convocation.[1] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Barna failed to get reelected in district 167 for European Solidarity.[5] He lost to independent candidate Volodymyr Hevko who won the district with 22.21%.[8][9]

In July 2014 he volunteered to fight in the war in Donbas with the 128th Guards Mountain Brigade.[4]

In 2015 Barna publicly fought with the then Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in parliament.[1] On 11 December 2015, he at first presented Yatsenyuk with flowers and then tried to carry him out of his rostrum.[10]

On 17 April 2023, former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko reported that Barna was killed in combat during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[11][1] On the first day of the 24 February 2022 full-scale invasion Barna signed up as a volunteer at the front.[1] On 18 April a military spokesman confirmed Barna's death, but on the same day Poroshenko and Barna's brother, the Ukrainian politician Stepan Barna,[1] stated that his brigade had not confirmed his death.[1] The brothers fought together in the war,[1] in the 68th Jager Brigade. A spokesman for the brigade stated the body of Barna had not yet been evacuated from the battlefield, so he was not officially declared dead.[11] The spokesman did state: "everything points to the fact that he died."[11] On 19 April 2023 his death was officially confirmed.[2] Barna died during the Battle of Vuhledar in the village of Pavlivka.[2] According to Poroshenko, Barna died of a bullet wound in the neck.[2]

• Order for Courage, 3rd class (24 August 2023, posthumously)[12]

• Media related to Oleh Barna at Wikimedia Commons
• Барна Олег Степанович // Слово і Діло
• Барна Олег Степанович // LB.ua