He had been due to debate the incident with MPs on Tuesday afternoon but resigned ahead of the scheduled debate.
Ukrainian MP Nadiia Savchenko has said the Ukrainians should not be afraid of the words "coup d'etat," "revolution," they should be afraid of what has been happening.
The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine (PGO) and the SBU Security Service of Ukraine have illegally interfered with an undercover special operation of the National Anti-corruption Bureau (NABU) aimed at identifying members of an organized criminal group in the State Migration Service of Ukraine.
The self-styled Russia-supported authorities of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" ("DPR") and "Luhansk People's Republic" ("LPR") consider the emergence of "Novorossia" an "inevitable process."
Ukraine’s Representative to the European Union Ambassador Mykola Tochytskiy has expressed his concern to the European Commission in connection with the statements by EC President Jean-Claude Juncker addressing Ukraine, which were used by Russian media to discredit Ukraine on the eve of the entry into force of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement, an UNIAN correspondent in Brussels reports.
U.S. President Donald Trump in a statement released August 2 after he had signed into law the so-called Russia sanctions bill, called on the Congress to refrain from using the Russia sanctions law to the detriment of the U.S. and EU efforts on Ukraine settlement.
Ukraine's Ambassador to Italy Yevhen Perelygin has slammed Italian Ambassador to Russia Cesare Maria Ragaglini's statement claiming that the annexation of Crimea was "voting of the country for its independence," saying that such statements damage Ukraine-Italy relations.
Former Ukrainian .president Viktor Yanukovych’s defense team on Thursday said they handed to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine the statement by their client about the "coup d'etat" in Ukraine in 2014, Ukrainska Pravda online newspaper reports.