Discussions have broken out: the Rada failed to vote on the de-sovietization of hundreds of settlements. What will happen next?

On Wednesday, September 18, members of the Verkhovna Rada failed to vote on a resolution to de-Russify the names of 333 Ukrainian settlements. "Only 208 MPs out of the required 226 voted in favor.

After the failed vote, the dissatisfied MPs blocked the rostrum, demanding that the resolution be reintroduced to the session hall. They chanted "Shame". According to MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, discussions on the adoption of draft law No. 11188 are ongoing in parliament .

He himself supported the vote.

"But what I want to say is that I don't understand why in some cases we are de-imperializing in such a way that we remove Russian and add German (I mean the renaming of Yuzhnyi to Port-Anental). Let's start Ukrainizing already. We need to learn our own language. Sometimes avoid other people's. Because somehow it's not the same," Honcharenko wrote on his Telegram channel.

At the same time, MP Roman Lozynsky said that the Ukrainian parliament "failed a historic chance to throw off the map of Ukraine everything that was imposed by Moscow over centuries of enslavement."

According to Lozynsky, the informal union in the Rada, the "deputies of the Moscow Patriarchate," "by all means and means, cheated their colleagues," which is why there were not enough votes to rename 333 settlements.

"This is a total disgrace for Ukraine. This is revenge. I will definitely publish a list of all those who were against/abstained or cowardly did not vote for this resolution or pretended to be dead," the MP wrote on Facebook.

Lozynskyi also published the details of the vote. In particular, 75 MPs did not vote, five abstained, and three were against.

Most of those who did not vote were from the Servant of the People faction (40) and the Platform for Life and Peace (15), which united people from the OPFL after the party was banned.

After the vote failed, dissatisfied MPs blocked the parliamentary rostrum, chanting "Shame." They demanded that a conciliation board be convened and that the relevant committee be instructed to re-examine the resolution immediately and reintroduce it to the session hall.

As OBOZ.UA reported, earlier in Kharkiv region, it was decided to change 36 place names in the Lipetsk and Merefiansk communities. The OVA stated that community residents and representatives of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory voiced their own proposals for names and the deputies took them into account.

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