Verkhovna Rada appoints Dmytro Lubinets as Ukraine's ombudsman

MOSCOW. July 1 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada has appointed parliamentarian Dmytro Lubinets to the post of the country's human rights commissioner, the Ukrainian media said, citing MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.

Lubinets' appointment was supported by 250 MPs at the Verkhovna Rada's plenary session on Friday.

The Ukrainian parliament earlier dismissed Liudmyla Denisova from the post of ombudsman, saying that instead of tackling humanitarian issues in a time of crisis, she sought to draw public attention to her personality and traveled abroad at the expense of the state.

Lubinets is a Ukrainian politician, a lawyer, a member of Ukraine's eighth Verkhovna Rada (from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc), and a member of the ninth Verkhovna Rada with no party affiliation. In 2019, he entered the Verkhovna Rada after winning elections in the 60th electoral district of the Donetsk region as a self-nominated candidate with no party affiliation and then joined the For the Future deputy bloc, which became a party on June 2, 2020.