Chernovetsky says he will no longer run for Kyiv mayor

Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky has said that he will no longer run for the post of city mayor, the Komsomolskaya Pravda v Ukraine newspaper reported on Thursday. "I'm not planning to run for Kyiv mayor, and I don't want to explain the reason for that. I just have no such plans, and that's it! As for the Verkhovna Rada, I'm thinking about it, but I have not yet taken a decision," Chernovetsky said.

When asked by the newspaper whether he participates remotely in the settlement of problems in Kyiv as current mayor, Chernovetsky said: "Wherever I was, I fulfilled with full responsibility all of the obligations entrusted to me under Ukrainian laws. I signed only those Kyiv City Council decisions in which there were no legal or functional mistakes, and I took other decisions entrusted to me by law absolutely responsibly."