Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People's Self-Defence

Early years The UNA was created on 30 June 1990 in Lviv as the Ukrainian Interparty Assembly (UMA). Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian Nationalistic Self Defense members participated in the 2000–01 Ukraine without Kuchma protest campaign. In the 2002 parliamentary elections Andriy Shkil won an electoral district in Lviv Oblast and a seat in the Verkhovna Rada, the party itself won 0.04% of the votes. and he has become an aide to Yulia Tymoshenko. During the Orange Revolution UNA-UNSO members supported Viktor Yushchenko against his pro-Russian opponents, providing security for Yushchenko supporters and Orange leaders such as Yulia Tymoshenko in Kyiv's Independence Square. Six Ukrainians fought on the side of Yugoslavia in the Battle of Koshare. The commander of the volunteers was Andriy Biletsky, and he was also the one who led the volunteers into war. during the funeral of Mikhail Zhiznevsky, 26 January 2014 In 2005, Yuriy Shukhevych again became the party's leader. In the 2006 parliamentary election, it failed to win parliamentary representation with 0.06 percent of the vote According to an August 2009 Russian Investigative Committee report, 200 UNA-UNSO members and soldiers from the Ukrainian Ground Forces aided Georgia during the fighting. Ukraine denied the accusation. UNA-UNSO deputy head Mykola Karpyuk said that "unfortunately", no organisation members took part in the Georgian conflict. UNA-UNSO participated in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, receiving 0.08 percent of the national vote and winning none of the five electoral districts in which they fielded candidates.) and thus failed to win parliamentary representation. In March 2014, Russia brought a criminal case against the party and some of its members, including party leader Oleh Tyahnybok of Svoboda, for "organizing an armed gang" which allegedly fought the Russian 76th Guards Air Assault Division during the first Chechen war. The organisation's Ukrainian National Assembly political wing merged with Right Sector on 22 May 2014. ==Leaders==

• 1990–1994 Yuriy Shukhevych • 1994–1999 Oleh Vitovych • 2002–2003 Andriy Shkil • 2006–2014 Yuriy Shukhevych • 2015–2016 Kostiantyn Fushtei • since 2016 Valeriy Bobrovych ==International conflicts==

• 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt in Moscow (summer 1991) • Transnistria War in Moldova (spring–summer 1992) • War in Abkhazia (1992–93) • Georgian Civil War (1991-93) • Croatian War of Independence (1991-95) • Bosnian War (1992-95) • First Karabakh war (1988–94) • First Chechen War in Russia (1995–96) • Kosovo War in Yugoslavia (1998–99) • Russo-Ukrainian War (2014–present) Transnistria During the Transnistria War, UNA-UNSO members fought with Transnistrian separatists against Moldovan government forces, purportedly in defence of Transnistria's large ethnic Ukrainian minority. Over 50 UNSO members were awarded the Defender of Transnistria Order. Georgian civil war In 1993, UNA-UNSO sent volunteers to the Abkhaz–Georgian conflict against Abkhaz separatists. The UNA-UNSO Argo unit joined the Georgian side against Russian-backed Abkhaz forces, and some volunteers joined the Sokhumi Battalion of the Marine Infantry Forces of Georgia. A CPT Ustym squad prevented an amphibious assault of Russian forces near Sokhumi, sinking a Russian military motorboat. Seven UNSO members died near Sokhumi, and 30 members received the Order of Vakhtang Gorgasali medal. The UNA-UNSO units did not lose a battle in the civil war. • Sokhumi raid (June 1993) • Starushkino village ambush (15 July 1993) • Shromi village assault (17 July 1993) • Khomi defence (4 October 1993) • Samtredia defence (17 October 1993) Russo-Ukrainian War UNSO had also fought in the Russo-Ukrainian War as part of the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps and the Territorial defence battalions 131st Separate Reconnaissance Battalion "UNSO", 1st Recon Company UNSO and 55th UNSO Battalion. Members of the brigade have participated in the full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine following the 2022 invasion. ==Ideology and image==

The Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian People's Self-Defence 1994 party platform envisioned Kyiv as the centre of a new, pan-Slavic, eastern military bloc. ==Elections==

UNA-UNSO parliamentarians • Yuriy Tyma • Andriy Shkil ==See also==