Question hour, blockade of presidium and Opposition Bloc's delayed split, - last day of Verkhovna Rada's fifth session. PHOTOS
Lawmakers gathered on Friday to hear ministers while Radicals tried to block the presidium and the Opposition Bloc faction postponed its split.
A Censor.NET correspondent reports.
Some MPs say the session hall is half-empty over yesterday's Epiphany holiday.


Vice Prime Minister Hennadii Zubko

Prime Minister Hroisman did not attend today's question hour, having a day off on the occasion of his birthday.


Radicals Oleh Liashko and Andrii Lozovyi address Speaker Andrii Parubii with a request

Parubii surrounded by the Radical Party faction

Compromise has been reached and sealed with a handshake

Yurii Bereza (People's Front) gives Yevhen Rybchynskyi (Volia Narodu) a friendly hug

Opposition Bloc's Ihor Shurma shows a newspaper to his colleague Vasyl Nimchenko

Speaker Andrii Parubii delivers a closing speech

Lawmakers sing Ukraine's anthem



Ihor Shurma from the Opposition Bloc faction receives an SMS saying that the "split is postponed until better time"
The faction is reported to be experiencing internal difficulties and discussing a possible split.
Photos by Nataliia Sharomova, Censor.NET