First Deputy Speaker: Ukraine’s Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) to assemble early next week

Olha Hluschenko – Sunday, 13 March 2022, 07:05

The next session of the Verkhovna Rada [Ukraine’s parliament] will take place early next week.

Source: Oleksandr Korniyenko, First Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, on Ukraine24, cited in Ukrinform

According to Korniyenko: "We are planning the next session. It will be held next week, around the beginning of the week. For security reasons, we do not report the exact coordinates, but will report after the fact."

Details: The Deputy First Speaker said that the agenda will include many bills. Two main issues addressed by the legislative initiatives that will be considered are the economy and the military.

Korniyenko clarified that these include draft laws that will help reduce fuel prices, regulate the mechanism for deploying foreign volunteers to defend Ukraine, and define the responsibilities of the armed forces.