A presidential advisor Hanna Herman has denied reports that President Viktor Yanukovych will most likely resign any moment.

Herman, who is a parliament deputy representing the Party of Regions, answered in the negative when asked by Interfax whether such reports were true.

She said the president was currently in Kharkiv, and that he had talked to journalists and made an address though local television.

Earlier, lawmaker Vyacheslav Kyrylenko of the Batkivschyna opposition party said in a program on Rada television: "I think that any moment now you all will hear an official announcement that Yanukovych has submitted his resignation and Yulia Tymoshenko has been released."

Herman branded Kyrylenko's allegation as "an attempt to seize power by force."

She told Interfax that she had just spoken to Yanukovych. "It's true that he's had a call from [Oleksandr] Turchynov [the new parliament chairman], who asked whether he could issue a statement about his resignation, to which the president answered that he had already issued a statement but another one," Herman said.

Surmises that Yanukovych is considering resignation have had no confirmation from any other official source either. The presidential press service is not working, and the presidential website is inaccessible.