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|native_name = {{nobold|Віктор Медведчук}}
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|caption = Arrested Medvedchuk in 20192022
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|office1 = [[People's Deputy of Ukraine]]
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===2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine===
{{main|2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine}}
[[File:Arrested Medvedchuk 2.jpg|thumb|Medvedchuk after his arrest in April 2022]]
 
During [[2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis|a massive build-up of Russian troops around Ukraine's borders]] in the first weeks of 2022, Medvedchuk was one of two people identified by the United States intelligence community as a possible Kremlin-supported choice to lead a pro-Russia puppet Ukrainian government, the other one being [[Oleg Tsaryov]]. <ref name=MT15022022>{{cite news |url=https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2022/02/15/ssha-nazvali-direktora-krimskogo-sanatoriya-vozmozhnim-glavoi-marionetochnogo-pravitelstva-v-kieve-a17521 |title=США назвали нового возможного главу марионеточного правительства в Киеве: Вашингтон объясняет публикацию разведданных нежеланием дать Москве поводы для оправдания конфликта |trans-title=The United States named the new possible head of the puppet government in Kiev: Washington explains the publication of intelligence data as unwillingness to give Moscow reasons to justify the conflict |language=ru |work=[[Moscow Times]] |date=15 February 2022 |access-date=24 February 2022}}</ref>.<ref name=MT15022022/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2022/01/24/muraev-a16809 |title=Кто такой Евгений Мураев, которого Лондон назвал возможным ставленником Москвы на Украине: Экс-депутат выступает против Зеленского и Медведчука, находится под российскими санкциями и называет конфликт в Донбассе внутренним делом Украины |trans-title=Who is Yevgeny Muraev, whom London called a possible protege of Moscow in Ukraine: The ex-deputy opposes Zelensky and Medvedchuk, is under Russian sanctions and calls the conflict in Donbas an internal affair of Ukraine |language=ru |work=[[Moscow Times]] |date=24 January 2022 |access-date=24 February 2022}}</ref>. The British government concurrently named [[Yevheniy Murayev]] as another potential Kremlin favorite to lead a marionet government.