Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said on July 31 that lawmaker Andriy Kholodov of the ruling Servant of the People party had resigned. A day earlier, Skhemy (Schemes), an investigative project run by RFE/RL, revealed that Kholodov had been out of the country since January and is now with his family in Cyprus, where he owns a property. Last week, another lawmaker of the ruling party, Yuriy Aristov, was stripped of his mandate for leaving the country for almost two months in violation of a ban on males of conscription age leaving during Russia's ongoing invasion. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, click here.
