The Batkivschyna Party has prepared an appeal to the members of the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the United States to draw their attention to those who currently represent Ukraine on the international arena, the party's first deputy chairman, Oleksandr Turchynov, has said.
"We’ll turn to the parliamentarians of civilized countries so that their governments, before they issue visas to criminals, think about whether they’re doing the right thing or not, and so that they pay attention to those who open accounts at their banks in order to launder budgetary funds," the party’s press service quoted Turchynov as saying.
In his opinion, the international community should pay attention to "the terror, which is now being unleashed in Ukraine."
Turchynov noted that Ukrainian citizens "do not deserve these criminals in power," so the actions of the authorities cannot be seen as representative of the whole of Ukraine.
"We apologize to the whole civilized world that our Ukrainian parliament is in such a terrible state," he said.
As reported, a fight in Ukraine’s parliament on December 16 left opposition lawmakers bloodied and bruised after they protested against the opening of a criminal case against their leader, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Deputies from Tymoshenko’s bloc physically blocked the work of parliament and hung up posters reading "Stop Political Repression" and "Hands off Tymoshenko" a day after prosecutors filed the case. The opposition leader is accused of misusing hundreds of millions of dollars when she was in office. In the evening, scores of deputies from the pro-presidential Regions Party stormed the presidium and, after a fight involving fists and flying chairs, forced opposition deputies out of the parliament hall. Six opposition lawmakers were injured in the scuffle.
