Zelensky instructed Shmygal to consider depriving the people’s deputy of the honorary title from the banned party, but the prime minister said there was not enough reason to do so.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that there was “not enough justification” to deprive MP of the title of Hero of Ukraine from Yuriy Boyko, one of the leaders of the banned Opposition Platform for Life party. This is stated in the OP’s response to the request for the “Chesno” movement, the organization reported Monday, January 30.
The published document specifically states that the President returned after the evaluation of the petition by the Ukrainian Armed Forces Lieutenant Andriy Gaidai to deprive Boyko of the title of “Hero of Ukraine” on December 9, 2022. to Prime Minister Shmyhal with a request to examine the relevant issue.
“The Prime Minister of Ukraine, D. Shmyhal, in a letter dated January 13, 2023 and numbered 877/0/2-23 to the President of Ukraine and the petitioner in particular on the absence of grounds for the application of personal restrictive measures In the document published by Chesno, Yu. Against Boyko”.
In 2004, Boyko was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine “for outstanding personal service to the Ukrainian state, many years of selfless work in the development of the fuel and energy complex” from the then President Leonid Kuchma.
It is known that Boyko appeared on the program of Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov on the third day of the all-out war and indirectly told that the Ukrainian media lied about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
At the end of last year, it was learned that the Prosecutor General’s Office will prosecute 43 deputies from the banned OPPL party, including Yuriy Boyko, for committing crimes under the article of treason.
January 29 Focus He reported that Oleg Voloshin, People’s Deputy of the Opposition Platform for Life Party, whose activities are banned in Ukraine, decided to resign from his parliamentary position and wrote a statement regarding this. And on January 16, it became known that the deputies had collected the necessary 150 signatures in the Verkhovna Rada to address the issue of deprivation of deputies from the Opposition Platform – Lifetime.
Source: Focus
