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The parliamentary coalition could expand to 260 MPs, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said.

"I think that the coalition will number around 260 MPs by the middle of the next month," he said on Channel 5 on Thursday evening.

As reported, Lytvyn read out Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense Bloc MP Oleksandr Bobyliov’s statement on joining the coalition at a parliament meeting on April 1. Bobyliov became the 240th member of the coalition.