Iryna Lutsenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker and wife of ex-Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, announced her resignation on Nov. 4.
She, her press secretary, and her husband all announced the decision on their Facebook pages. Iryna Lutsenko posted that she requested an early termination as the state of her health would not allow her to work at full strength.
Yuriy Lutsenko confirmed her announcement, adding that his wife “has a serious heart problem and that such a diagnosis does not allow her to work for the voters with the utmost effort, as she did in the opposition and in power.”
Iryna’s Facebook post was linked to a 19-slide presentation outlining the various laws she has helped pass while in parliament. She wrote that her main mission was to protect children and Ukrainian families, combat domestic violence and protect human rights.
She highlighted her accomplishments in these areas, such as Ukraine’s moves to recognize domestic violence as a criminal offense and force parents to pay child support after they had long neglected this duty.
As a member of parliament, her priority was also to protect the state sovereignty of Ukraine, she wrote. This included working to criminalize illegal crossing of the state border of Ukraine and adding Euro-Atlantic integration to the Constitution.
She ended her post by calling on Ukrainians to unite and consolidate society in order to protect the country from its foreign aggressor, Russia. She stated that one does not have to be in parliament in order to make a difference in Ukraine.
“As the mother of a son who is a defender (of Ukraine) and a member of the (military operation in Donbas), I urge all of us not to give up and to win!” she wrote.
Lutsenko’s husband, the former prosecutor general who is being investigated by the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigations and who played a central role in fanning the flames of the Trump/Ukraine scandal in the United States, left the country in September for London, apparently to study English.
Yuriy Lutsenko denied that he had fled from Ukraine and that the reason for his wife’s resignation was to join him there. Rather, he wrote on Facebook that he had finished his English course and returned to Ukraine 10 days ago.
Iryna Lutsenko’s resignation has nothing to do with what “the bilious pseudo-experts are saying,” Yuriy Lutsenko wrote.
“All my family was born, worked, struggled and fought here, in Ukraine. We will change neither our beliefs nor our place of residence.”
