(without success) to find incriminating information on Joe Biden, who was planning to challenge Trump in the next US presidential election. A few months later, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected president of Ukraine and dismissed Lutsenko from his position as Ukraine's chief prosecutor. Trump pressured Zelenskyy to reinstate Lutsenko and threatened to withhold $400 million in previously approved military and security aid to Ukraine if he did not (in addition to a demand that Zelenskyy announce an investigation into the business activities of Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden). Fighter in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine In April 2022, 2 months after the start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lutsenko joined the Territorial Defence Battalion (of the Ukrainian Armed Forces) of Mykolaiv. According to his Lutsenko's wife Iryna, Lutsenko was initially in the Territorial Defence Forces of Kyiv during the Kyiv offensive, and then took part in the Battle of Mykolaiv, 2022 Kherson counteroffensive, Battle of Soledar and the Battle of Bakhmut. Early 2023 Lutsenko was promoted to the rank of Kapitan. On 20 February 2023 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi appointed Lutsenko as the platoon commander of a platoon of attack unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Personal life Lutsenko's wife Iryna Lutsenko was elected into parliament in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election on the party list of "Fatherland" (number 18). She served in parliament until 2019. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Iryna Lutsenko tried to get re-elected into parliament; this time by placing 70th on the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc. However, as the Petro Poroshenko Bloc gained only 63 seats by electoral list, Lutsenko was unsuccessful. After fellow Petro Poroshenko Bloc members left the Verkhovna Rada, she returned as a People's Deputy on 27 January 2015. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, she was re-elected for European Solidarity as 25th on the electoral list, but resigned in November 2019 due to health reasons. Her mandate was officially terminated on 12 November 2019. Awards See also Rudy Giuliani Konstantin Kilimnik Trump–Ukraine scandal Notes References External links Official website of Lutsenko's non-parliamentary movement "Third Republic" BBC profile Lutsenko: There Are Several Criminal Cases on Companies Linked to Akhmetov... (June 2005 interview) |- |- 1964 births Corruption in Ukraine Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights European Court of Human Rights cases involving Ukraine Independent politicians in Ukraine Inmates of Lukyanivska Prison Interior