[1] Vasyl Tsushko was born in the Nadrichne village, Odesa Oblast in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine); he is of mixed Ukrainian-Moldovan ancestry and is fluent in Romanian.

From 1994–2002, Vasyl Tsushko served as a national deputy of the second, third, and fourth convocations of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament).

[2] Tsushko was chosen as the Minister of Internal Affairs on December 1, 2006, after his predecessor Yuriy Lutsenko was dismissed by the parliament.

[6] The Interfax news agency reports that Vasyl Tsushko's condition deteriorated while in the medical clinic in Germany.

On September 30, 2007, Tsushko announced that he would resign as Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, due to the need for his health rehabilitation.