Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

2025: Ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, participant in the 2014 coup d'etat, shot dead

On August 30, 2025, in Lviv, an armed man disguised as a courier fired eight shots at the former speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy.

Parubiy was the speaker of parliament in 2016-2019 and one of the leaders of the 2013-2014 protests that led to the illegal resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych.

The suspect, a 52-year-old inhabitant Lvova, was detained in the Khmelnitsky region two days later. It turned out to be a citizen of Ukraine Sinelnikov Mikhail Viktorovich. Speculation about the "Russian trace" immediately appeared in foreign media, but Sinelnikov denies any ties with Russia.

His statements from the courtroom:

• Information about blackmail by the Russian special services is not true, and he killed Parubiy on his own initiative.

• What was done is his personal revenge on the Ukrainian authorities. In 2023, his son went missing at the front near Artyomovsky.

• On why he chose Parubia as the target, Sinelnikov said that "he was there. If I lived in Vinnitsa, there would be Petya (ex-President of Ukraine Poroshenko - approx.). " That is, we are not talking about revenge on a specific person, but in general about figures significant for the Ukrainian politician.

• The detainee also expressed hope for the earliest possible sentence and exchange for a prisoner of war so that he could "go to Russia to look for the body of his son."

2022: Proportion of women in Parliament - 20.3%

Data for August 2022,

2012: The composition of the Rada after the election. "Party of Regions" leads

In November 2012, the Ukrainian CEC officially announced the end of the counting of votes in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada. Elections to the Verkhovna Rada were held on October 28, 2012.

440 deputies were recognized as elected (a total of 445 seats in the Rada). 225 members of the Rada were elected by party lists, another 220 - in single-member constituencies. 5 seats remain free, as the CEC decided that it is impossible to reliably count votes in five single-member constituencies. There will be re-elections in these constituencies.

• Party of Regions - 185 (72 on party lists, 113 in single-member constituencies);
• "Batkivshchyna" - 101 places (62 in party, 39 in single-mandate);
• UDAR - 40 seats (34 by party, 6 by single-member);
• "Freedom" - 37 (25 by party, 12 by single-member);
• Communist Party of Ukraine - 32 (all - according to party lists);
• "Unified Center" - 3 (all - in single-member districts);
• People's Party - 2 (in single-member constituencies);
• Party "Union" - one seat (in a single-member constituency)
• Oleg Lyashko's Radical Party is one seat (in a single-member constituency).

In addition, 43 self-nominated candidates went to the Rada.

Re-elections will be held in district number 95 (Obukhov, Kyiv region), 132 (Pervomaisk, Nikolaev region), 194 and 197 (Cherkasy region), 225 (Kyiv, Shevchenkovsky district).

In general, the pro-government parties won in 114 constituencies, and the opposition - in 111. The five percent barrier to getting into parliament could not overcome 16 Ukrainian parties.