Volodymyr Zinoviyovych Parasyuk was born on 9 July 1987 in the village of Maidan, in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast.

[3] Parasyuk took part in the Euromaidan protests, where he was a sotnik (commander) of a group of defenders of the Maidan (a sotnia).

He became known for his Euromaidan speech on 21 February 2014, in which he rejected the terms of an agreement between opposition leaders and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

[4] Later, Parasyuk fought in the war in Donbas as a member of the Dnipro Battalion,[3][5][6][7] where he was taken prisoner by Russian forces during the battle of Ilovaisk and illegally moved to Rostov on Don.

[9] As an independent candidate, Parasyuk won a parliamentary seat in Ukraine's 122nd electoral district with 56.56% of the vote.