and 2 constituency seats. On May 31, 2019, he was elected to the presidium and central political council of European Solidarity. On June 26, 2019, officers of the State Bureau of Investigation conducted a search of Yurii Biriukov's apartment related to the supply of supplies to the Ministry of Defense. European Solidarity considers these searches «cynical political pressure and undisguised political persecution». However, in July the director of the DBR, Roman Truba, stated that there were no complaints about the quality of the material support. Volunteering After the Russian intervention in the Crimea and the beginning of the War in Donbass, Yurii Biriukov began to help the Ukrainian army. The group of Phoenix Wings volunteers he created purchased walkie-talkies, sleeping bags, bulletproof vests, and protective helmets. Biriukov organized the production of bulletproof vests, delivering more than two thousand bulletproof vests to the anti-terrorist operation zone in a month and a half. Also the Antonov An-26 plane was repaired with the means collected by group and the staff for engineering and technical personnel of crew near Mykolaiv was constructed. Volunteers took care of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade, the 26th Artillery Brigade, the 25th Airborne Brigade, the 15th Transport Aviation Brigade, the 10th Saki Marine Aviation Brigade and the 79th Mykolayiv Airborne Brigade. Biriukov personally supervises the care of the latter. In August 2014, with the support of Biriukov, the 3rd Phoenix Volunteer Battalion was created at the 79th Airborne Division. As of the beginning of July, Phoenix Wings had collected more than ₴10 million in donations. On average, the group received ₴250-300 thousand a day. Thanks to the help of Yurii Biriukov, on July 21, 2014, it was possible to remove 80 seriously wounded soldiers of the 79th separate airmobile brigade from the environment of terrorists in the Luhansk region. Also, he took part in the organization of return on August 8, 2014, of paratroopers of the 79th Airborne Brigade to Mykolaiv. Critique In August 2016, Yurii Biriukov on his Facebook page spoke about the unreliability of 811 KRAZ cars of the General Ministry of Defense in the period from 2014 to 2015, which have already gained thousands of kilometers during the war, paying with the new Belarusian MAZ-Bogdan, which creates business partner of Petro Poroshenko, currently Oleh Gladkovsky is the First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. Prior to that, MAZ was established only in