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Ukrainian MP and For Ukraine Party leader Viacheslav Kyrylenko will arrive for questioning at the investigation department of the Kyiv prosecutor's office on Tuesday, Dec. 28, the party's press service has reported.

The interrogation will begin at 10.00 at a building at 144 Antonovycha Street.

At 09.45, Kyrylenko will hold a briefing near the investigation department.

The For Ukraine group of deputies said earlier that the prosecutor’s office of Kyiv had summoned For Ukraine! Party deputies for questioning as part of a criminal case regarding the Apr. 27 fight in the Verkhovna Rada when it ratified an agreement extending the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s presence in Ukraine after 2017.

As reported, on Apr. 27, 2010, the Ukrainian parliament ratified an agreement extending the lease on the Russian Black Sea Fleet on Ukrainian territory. The vote took place in an atmosphere of extreme tension in the session hall.

Eggs were hurled at the presidium immediately after the opening of the plenary session. Parliament Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn was forced to shelter under two black umbrellas. Several smoke bombs were later set off, and coalition and opposition lawmakers brawled with each other in the hall.