[1] During the ongoing 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, he became one of the most popular Ukrainian online activists and was extensively cited on the situation in the country.

From 1978 to 1983, he lived in the German Democratic Republic due to his father's service in the Soviet Army and then moved to Berdychiv in the Ukrainian SSR, where he spent the rest of his youth.

[8] In 1995, Tymchuk graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Lviv Higher Military-Political School (Soviet predecessor of the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy).

[8] Tymchuk became a founding member of the new People's Front party on 10 September 2014, 46 days before the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

According to media reports and the preliminary working version of the Kyiv police he was cleaning his gun and accidentally discharged it.