The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for the first time works in the conditions of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. On February 24, the deputies accepted the imposition of martial law and switched to a mode of operation based on the principle of consensus, which means the adoption of important decisions determined by a special conciliation council with minimal discussions in the session hall, writes parliamentary analyst Ruhu HONEST Alexander Salizhenko.

Parliamentary opposition factions announced the transition to an informal "

However, the farther the ZSU pushed the enemy back from Kyiv, the more the political struggle for rating intensified.. People's deputies registered absurd bills to change the words of the national anthem, or proposed to allow the use of weapons against violating military personnel, even if it would lead to their death.

Thanks to publicity and public pressure, fortunately, these strange initiatives of people's deputies remained unrealized..

During martial law, the agenda of the Verkhovna Rada, the place and time of the meeting are not announced in detail. For a hundred days of a full-scale war, 11 meetings were held, all within the walls of parliament, which is important in terms of voting and trust in the adopted laws.

Part of the information about people's deputies, voting, transcripts, agendas, etc. was removed from the website of the Verkhovna Rada from public access. However, later the roll call data from the meeting on April 21 appeared in the public domain..

Now there are no online broadcasts from the session hall. Videos of the meetings appear after the fact on the Rada channel.

Some deputies combine parliamentary work with frontline service, some volunteer or help voters in the districts, but there are those who left Ukraine in early February and still miss the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada.

The CHESTNO movement found out that almost two dozen people's deputies regularly miss a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine.

Basically, we are talking about representatives of the former faction of the Opposition Platform for Life, non-factional and ex-people's deputies from the Servant of the People. Some of these deputies have suspicions of high treason.

During this time, a mutation occurred in the OPPL - its deputies regrouped and created two new groups (PZZhM and " However, although there is no faction, its mandates are.

All former people's deputies from the Opposition Platform for Life still have access to state secrets, can participate in closed meetings of the Council, committees and VSK.

From the positive, in March, ex-people’s deputy of the Opposition Platform for Life, Ilya Kiva, according to his own statement, the Verkhovna Rada deprived of his deputy mandate. Now he is in Russia and writes letters to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to grant him political asylum and Russian citizenship..

Currently, almost every meeting of the Verkhovna Rada under martial law is held with the participation of the leaders of European countries - Boris Johnson, Andrzej Duda, Mark Rutte, Zuzana Chaputova. Some of the world leaders are personally present in the session hall, and some speak via video link.

There is already a clear impression that with each visit to Ukraine, European politicians will know our history and the words of the national anthem better than some Ukrainian deputies.. After all, Europeans, as a rule, begin and end their speeches with lines of Ukrainian poetry, give historical analogies of our common past and struggle.

And some European parliamentarians even speak in the Ukrainian language in the Verkhovna Rada, such as Marshal of the Senate of Poland Tomasz Grodsky.

There is a noticeable tendency that with each subsequent meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament reduces the pace of work on the principle of universal consensus, which was in the early days of Russia's full-scale aggression.

If during the first meetings the deputies tried to act in "

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In the session hall, they no longer mention the " However, an important point in the efficiency of the legislative work of the parliament is that the adopted bills, as a rule, are signed by the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and submitted to the president for consideration on the same day..

In total, during the martial law, the Verkhovna Rada has already adopted 158 bills and resolutions.

I would like to hope that, along with further victories of the Ukrainian army and the expulsion of Russian invaders from the territory of Ukraine, our politicians will work and will not be engaged in narrow-party mercantile interests that play into the hands of the enemy, but will make efforts for cohesion and a common future. We are only strong when united.

Earlier it was reported that the Verkhovna Rada prepared a draft law on compensation to Ukrainians for lost housing. We are talking about the provision of living space with a limit of up to 150 sq.. meters.