Brawl erupts in Ukraine parliament over controversial land reform

2020-02-06 19

Ruslan Stefanchuk, deputy speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, calls on the deputies to maintain order after a brawl broke out in Ukraine's parliament and hundreds of people protested outside the legislature as passions heated up over a controversial land reform bill. Around 15 lawmakers from President Volodymyr Zelensky's party and their opponents from ex-prime minister Yuliya Tymoshenko's party pushed each other near the rostrum as the legislature struggled to conduct a second and final reading of the bill.