Dmitro grew up in Pavlograd, where he graduated from school. Since 2018 he has been studying at Dnipro, at the University of Customs and Finance, majoring in International Law. Dmytro became interested in the ideas of libertarianism in the ninth grade after reading Murray Rothbard’s “For a New Liberty”. In 2019, he learned about the public organization “Ukrainian Students for Freedom” and became its member in August 2020.

I became interested in the ideas of freedom at school. I quickly realized that freedom is a universal value that can give Ukraine the opportunity to take its place among developed countries. But before that, we have a long and difficult way to build civilized democratic institutions, which can only be done by the young generation of Ukrainian leaders, who are burning with ideas of individual freedom and who have a strong desire to see their country strong and independent. Those are people that the USF unites. This organisation gives us a sense of community and the opportunity to act for the good of Ukraine, guided by the ideals of freedom.