Ukraine’s Russia-friendly opposition, like its Russia-unfriendly nationalists, appears to have failed to unite around a single candidate to represent them at the upcoming Ukrainian presidential elections in March 2019.

The co-chairman of the Opposition Bloc faction in parliament, Oleksandr Vilkul, announced during the morning session at Verkhovna Rada on Nov. 20 that the faction had stripped its co-chairman Yuriy Boyko, and another lawmaker, Serhiy Lyovochkin of their membership in the faction.