A member of the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Union, Ruslan Koshulynsky, has been elected as the deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament.

According to an Interfax-Ukraine reporter, 305 MPs supported Koshulynsky's candidacy at a sitting on Thursday.

In particular, he received 126 votes from the Regions Party, 87 from Batkivschyna, 42 from UDAR, 36 from Svoboda, and 14 from independent parliamentarians. The Communist Party did not vote.