Seventeen Ukrainian lawmakers have announced the creation of a deputy group to work to find solutions to the conflict in Ukraine that prevent the introduction of a state of emergency and civil war.
A respective address to Ukrainian MPs was released on Sunday by the
press service of the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada committee on
national security and defense, Volodymyr Lytvyn. In addition to the
ex-speaker, the address was signed by 11 more independent MPs, in
particular, Viktor Baloha, Ihor Yeremeyev, Stepan Ivakhiv, Serhiy
Labaziuk, Serhiy Martyniak, Valeriy Moshensky, Vasyl Petiovka, Viktor
Pylypyshyn, Mykhailo Poplavsky, Leonid Serhiyenko and Viktor Tymoshenko.
The address was also signed by five Party of Regions MPs, particularly
Vladyslav Atroshenko, Yuriy Blahodyr, Kateryna Vaschuk, Mykola Rudkovsky
and Yuriy Shapovalov.
“The state and the public are divided. The threat of a split in
Ukraine is real. It is actually in a state of siege. Life in it is
stopping. A civil conflict is turning into a civil war. The right of
force has prevailed in the confrontation. The price of this is human
life. The abyss between government institutions and the people is
getting insurmountable,” reads the statement.
“In such an alarming situation the Verkhovna Rada cannot continue to
be divided into two implacable camps with laws pushed through it and MPs
obliged to do so… The Verkhovna Rada should assume primary
responsibility for the country. And this requires its consolidation, the
removal of internal conflict, and the establishment of dialog to
urgently take the necessary decisions, eliminating the possibility of
the introduction of a state of emergency in the country,” reads the
document.
