The Verkhovna Rada fired Liudmyla Denisova, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, APA reports citing Babel.
MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak said that a new ombudsman would be appointed today. Oleksiy Honcharenko, an MP from European Solidarity, said that his faction did not vote for the decision.
On Tuesday, it became known that members of the Rada had collected the required number of signatures to consider the issue of Denisovaʼs dismissal.