Ruslan Stefanchuk. File photoMOSCOW, Apr 13Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk said that in the near future there will be no Opposition Platform — For Life faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky said that the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine stopped any activity of a number of political parties during martial law in the country, among them » Opposition Platform — For Life», «Shariy's Party», «Ours», «Opposition Bloc», «Left Opposition», «Union of Left Forces», «Derzhava», Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, «Socialists» and » Block of Vladimir Saldo. After that, the co-chairman of the «Opposition Platform — For Life» Vadim Rabinovich said that the party was suspending its activities. In early April, the chairman of the ruling Servant of the People party, Elena Shulyak, announced that the Verkhovna Rada had adopted a bill that would ban the activities of «pro-Russian» political parties. >»Opposition Platform — For Life» suspended its activities»I think that in the near future there will be no such faction («Opposition Platform — For Life» — ed.) in the parliament,» Stefanchuk said on Wednesday on the Rada TV channel. military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
