On 30 July 2023, the Lieutenant Colonel Serhii Slabenko, Member of Parliament of Ukraine of the fourth convocation, member of the Volyn Regional Council of the fifth, sixth and seventh convocations, was killed while performing a combat mission near Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia region.
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Korniienko, Secretary General of the Parliament of Ukraine Viacheslav Shtuchnyi, MPs and staff paid tribute to the Ukrainian defender.
“It is very sad that this war is taking away powerful Ukrainians. Serhii Slabenko was a member of the committee that was in charge of the courts. He devoted a lot of time to judicial reform, but did not manage to do everything he wanted. But he managed to fulfil his duty, managed to see his family before he died. After he was wounded...’ the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine said while laying flowers to the memorial plaque. He also expressed his gratitude to all those present for jointly honouring the memory of Serhii Slabenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament who laid down his life for Ukraine. “Unfortunately, a lot of our MPs of the previous convocation are not with us today,” said Ruslan Stefanchuk.
In the Parliament of Ukraine, Serhii Slabenko headed the Subcommittee on Courts, Judicial Proceedings and Judicial Reform of the Legal Policy Committee.
In honour of the Hero's feat, his name is engraved on a plaque on the administrative building of the Parliament. In this way, the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine honours the memory of MPs and Secretariat staff who died in the context of russia's large-scale armed aggression.
