Verkhovna Rada Chairman Oleksandr Turchynov has officially announced in parliament that eleven MPs are quitting the Regions Party faction .

In particular, Sergiy Tigipko, Serhiy Dunayev, Yuliy Ioffe, Svitlana Fabrykant, Oleh Shablatovych, Vasyl Poliakov, Hennadiy Fedoriak, Artem Semeniuk, Oleksandr Nechayev, Anatoliy Hirshfeld and Iryna Horina said they were leaving the Party of Regions.

Earlier Yulia Liovochkina, Andriy Pinchuk and Yuriy Miroshnychenko left the faction.

Turchynov also said that Oleksandr Volkov and Vitaliy Hrushevsky had submitted applications to join the Regions Party faction.