Today, the leader of the Batkivshchyna parliamentary faction, Yulia Tymoshenko, did not appear at the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada due to the death of a close relative.
Her faction member, ex-head of the Security Service of Ukraine Valentin Nalyvaichenko, told reporters about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“As far as we know, there is grief in her family. And due to family circumstances, Yulia Vladimirovna is not with us today. Our sincere condolences,” said Nalyvaichenko, adding that Tymoshenko herself will report what exactly happened.
After some time, news appeared on the website Gordon.ua, which belongs to Kyiv journalist Dmitry Gordon, about the details of the grief that befell Tymoshenko.
“The leader of the Batkivshchyna party, people’s deputy Yulia Tymoshenko, has died. TV presenter Savik Shuster told this to the founder of the online publication GORDON, Dmitry Gordon, during a tour of his new studio,” the news on the website indicated.
A number of Ukrainian media outlets reprinted this information, providing their texts with a photograph of Tymoshenko’s mother.
It soon became known that it was not the mother of the Batkivshchyna leader who died, but his cousin Tatyana Sharapova.
Earlier, as PolitNavigator reported, Gordon, referring to the alleged received by him through British intelligence channels data, said that the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which was ultimately successfully held last summer, will be canceled in Russia.