Ukrainian lawmaker and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has accused the leadership of parliament — the Verkhovna Rada — of intentionally impeding an impeachment process against President Petro Poroshenko just a month before Ukraine’s presidential election.
Tymoshenko, a presidential candidate whose Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party has joined with other parties to start the impeachment process, told parliament on February 28 that the Verkhovna Rada’s leadership had annulled forms to support the impeachment drive.
She also said the parliamentary leadership has refused to register a draft resolution on creating a temporary commission to investigate the alleged involvement of Poroshenko’s close associates in the smuggling …read more
