Ihor Lutsenko (politician)

Ihor Viktorovych Lutsenko (Ukrainian: І́гор Ві́кторович Луце́нко; born 10 November 1978) is a Ukrainian journalist and politician.

Ihor Lutsenko
Ігор Луценко
Lutsenko in 2012
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
27 November 2014  24 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1978-11-10) 10 November 1978
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityUkrainian
Political partyAll-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland"
Alma materNational University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
AwardsOrder for Courage 3d class

Lutsenko took part in the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv. In January 2014, he was abducted and beaten along with Yuriy Verbytsky who died.

In 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada on the party list of Batkivshchyna. But in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election he lost reelection for this party in constituency 154 (Rivne Oblast). In October 2019 Lutsenko became an adviser of the Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko.

Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Lutsenko joined the 72nd Mechanized Brigade.

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