The Verkhovna Rada registered a resolution to recall Boyko from the Verkhovna Rada committee on human rights – Yurchyshyn

The Verkhovna Rada prepared a draft resolution on the recall of People’s Deputy Yury Boyk from the position of a member of the Committee on Human Rights, Deoccupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine after his recent statements. Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Speech, announced this.

He emphasized that the committee cannot have a person who “stirs up inter-ethnic enmity by playing along with the aggressor.” According to Yurcishia, with his statements, Boyko “reminded where his master is and whose interests he actually protects.”

“Together with the initiator Oleksandr Aliksiichuk and colleagues in the parliament, we submit a draft resolution on the recall of Boyko from the position of a member of the Committee on Human Rights on the basis that he was submitted there by the disbanded opezheze. Of course, we would like to throw him out of the Council as a whole, but for this we need a verdict in a criminal case that would come into force. However, removing him from the committee is entirely within the powers of the VRU,” the deputy wrote.

The day before, People’s Deputy Yuriy Boyko, the former co-chairman of the “Opposition Platform – For Life” party, which was banned in 2022, posted a video on TikTok in which he accused unnamed “radicals” of forbidding people in Ukraine to speak their native language, go to church, which they want, demolish monuments and rename cities.

“This movement continues, violence against people continues. That is why more and more people support us – those who oppose such violence, for unity in the country, for the support of the people,” said Boyko, who was previously the Minister of Fuel and Energy in the government of the now fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych.

On December 15, Andriy Kovalenko, the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation of the NSDC, stated that “it is rather strange to hear from Yuriy Boyko in 2024 words about “radicals”, some “language bans”, theses about the church, which are usually spread by Russians, and about violence against people without mentioning Russia “.

“I want to remind Boyka that the only ones who commit violence against Ukrainians are Russians. “Shahed”, rockets, ammunition, soldiers. They destroy entire cities. And it would be very useful if a people’s deputy (if, of course, he works in the interests of Ukraine), publicly reminded about this constantly. However, we see something else. And this is frankly, to put it mildly, infuriating,” Kovalenko wrote in a telegram.

The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, said that “some politicians forget that the protection of Ukraine and victory over Russia, and not the spread of Russian narratives, is the key goal now.”

The “Detektor Media” publication, analyzing the statements of Boyko and other representatives of the former “OPZZH”, writes that they started an “election campaign.”