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Kyiv, Dec. 16 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The leader of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc faction, Viacheslav Kyrylenko, and his deputy Roman Zvarych resigned from their posts at a faction meeting on Tuesday.

Faction MP Viktor Shemchuk told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday that the faction had decided to sign an agreement on the creation of a coalition with the factions of the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko and the Bloc of Lytvyn.

“The decision was backed by 37 votes and rejected by 17 votes so as to sign a coalition agreement [with the BYT and the Bloc of Lytvyn] and empower [faction MP] Borys Tarasiuk with the signing of this agreement,” he said.