Deputy Aleksey Kovalev was blocked from working in the Verkhovna Rada due to his stay in the occupied Kherson region and open statements about cooperation with the occupation administration. It is reported by Radio Liberty with reference to an informed interlocutor in parliament.

" His work tablet was found and turned off, the keys to the offices were taken away, the assistants were fired. We will also take him away from the committee and he will be virtually impotent," Officially, the Verkhovna Rada does not confirm this information, but does not refute it either..

Alexei Kovalev was also denied access to information related to the Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, of which he is still a member..

The first deputy chairman of the tax committee, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, said that the collaborator deputy was removed from all committee chats and removed from any communication even before the information became public.

Alexei Kovalev was also expelled from the Servant of the People parliamentary faction.. However, he is still an MP.. The Verkhovna Rada can deprive him of his deputy mandate if he asks for it on a personal statement, or if the court passes a guilty verdict on him.