The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has confirmed the disappearance of the deputy head of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc parliamentary faction Oleksiy Honcharenko. It has been reported that the MP had gone missing in Odesa and all measures for its investigation are being taken.

"Law enforcement agencies are taking all measures for the search for he is a people's deputy, and the SBU's joined the search," SBU spokeswoman Olena Hytlianska told Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.