Yuriy Bereza

Yuriy Mykolayovych Bereza (Юрій Миколайович Береза; born 8 February 1970) is a Ukrainian politician and the commander of the Dnipro Battalion.

Biography
Representing People's Front, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Bereza was not re-elected. As an independent candidate in constituency 24 (in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) he gained 7.55% of the vote and lost the election to Dmytro Kysylevskyi of the party Servant of the People (who won with 59.36% of the votes)

In 2018 he was involved in a parliamentary brawl, ultimately punching Nestor Shufrych, after a member accused another of being 'Putin's agent' using a poster.

Awards

 * In September 2014, he was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class.