Verkhovna Rada

Ukrainian Parliament Chairman Andriy Parubiy would be in favor of removing the special status of non-government-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts from the draft amendments to the Constitution concerning decentralization.

Speaker Andriy Parubiy counts on law enforcement agencies not to let MP Oleksandr Onyshchenko out of Ukraine while the Verkhovna Rada is going through the procedure of lifting his immunity.

MP Igor Lutsenko has proposed the establishment of an interagency commission to counter illegal construction.

On Friday, May 27, 2016 Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko gave her first press conference upon returning to Ukraine after being imprisoned in Russia.