Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council calls on Ukrainian president to ‘stop political repressions’

Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council has called on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka to “stop political repression.”

Some 68 deputies of the council voted to approve a relevant address to the president and the prosecutor general’s office, while six deputies voted against, including member of the regional council and Head of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Administration Mykhailo Vyshyvaniuk, while 25 deputies abstained. Some 12 deputies were not present at a meeting and one deputy did not vote, the press service of the Svoboda All-Ukrainian Association reported on Tuesday.

“We, the deputies of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, believe that the demonstrative representations made by the current politician regime are aimed at eliminating the political opposition, sowing fear of punitive and repressive machinery, discouraging Ukrainian society’s confidence in their effectiveness, and preparing the grounds for the full monopolization of the government by the pro-Kremlin clan of Donetsk oligarchs,” reads a council statement released by the Svoboda press service.