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The Verkhovna Rada has registered a presidential draft resolution on the appointment of MP of the Servant of the People faction Andriy Kostin as Prosecutor General.

Draft resolution No. 7593 was registered on July 27, according to the parliament’s website.

As reported, on July 19, the Verkhovna Rada supported President Zelensky’s request to dismiss Iryna Venediktova from that post.

Kostin is a lawmaker from Zelensky’s Servant of the People faction, and head of the Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Legal Policy.