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Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has announced that he is going to submit his resignation immediately.

“To avoid any speculations that I am holding to my office, I am submitting my resignation to the president of Ukraine today. And all of you in the parliament must consider this issue,” he told the parliament on November 6, speaking from the rostrum about the investigation into the murder of Kateryna Gandziuk.