The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada's podium will remain blockaded until the opposition's demands are met, Batkivschyna Party's parliamentary faction leader Arseniy Yatseniuk said.
“Our two key demands for the parliament are the government’s
resignation and the termination of political persecutions and [former
Ukrainian Prime Minister] Yulia Tymoshenko’s release,” Yatseniuk said at
a news conference in Kyiv on Wednesday.
The opposition demands the release of nine activists arrested under a
ruling by Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court, Yatseniuk said.
Batkivschyna deputy Mykola Tomenko said earlier that the Verkhovna
Rada would not work on Wednesday and that the parliamentarians had been
unable to reach understanding on the matter. After that, the opposition
started hindering the Verkhovna Rada’s work.
The Party of Regions said on Tuesday that the parliamentarians were
not prepared to make any decisions and suggested starting consultations
with the opposition on the Verkhovna Rada’s further work.
