{"id":17237,"date":"2026-06-13T10:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/2026\/06\/on-forwarding-the-parliamentary-inquiry-of-a-group-of-peoples-deputies-of-ukraine-to-the-president-of-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T07:09:49","slug":"on-forwarding-the-parliamentary-inquiry-of-a-group-of-peoples-deputies-of-ukraine-to-the-president-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/2026\/06\/on-forwarding-the-parliamentary-inquiry-of-a-group-of-peoples-deputies-of-ukraine-to-the-president-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"On forwarding the parliamentary inquiry of a group of People&#8217;s Deputies of Ukraine to the President of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>****<\/p>\n<p>**1. Substance of the Act**<br \/>\nThis Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is an official procedural decision of the parliament aimed at implementing the function of parliamentary oversight. The document provides for the forwarding of an inquiry of a group of People&#8217;s Deputies (initiated by A.K. Skorokhod) to the President of Ukraine regarding the conferral of the title of Hero of Ukraine (posthumously) to serviceman Artem Oleksandrovych Sierenkov. The deceased defender served in the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians. The inquiry received the necessary support and was voted for by 261 People&#8217;s Deputies of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>**2. Structure of the Act and Amendments**<br \/>\nThe structure of the Resolution is concise and standard for decisions of an individual nature. It consists of:<br \/>\n*   **The Preamble**, which sets out the legal grounds for adopting the decision \u2014 Paragraph 34 of Part One of Article 85 of the Constitution of Ukraine (the authority of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine to forward an inquiry at the request of a People&#8217;s Deputy or a group of deputies to the President) and Article 15 of the Law of Ukraine &#8220;On the Status of the People&#8217;s Deputy of Ukraine.&#8221;<br \/>\n*   **The Operative Part**, which directly resolves to forward the respective inquiry to the Head of State.<\/p>\n<p>Since this Resolution is an act of one-time application (of individual effect), it does not introduce any amendments to the codes or other laws of Ukraine and has no prior versions.<\/p>\n<p>**3. Main Provisions Important for Application**<br \/>\nFor the practical application and understanding of this act, the following points are key:<br \/>\n*   **Legal Force of the Inquiry:** The inquiry was supported by 261 votes (with a minimum of 226 required), which grants it the status of an official decision of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, rather than simply an appeal by individual deputies.<br \/>\n*   **Mandatory Consideration:** In accordance with the relevant legislation, forwarding such an inquiry via a Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine obligates the President of Ukraine to consider it within the period established by law and to provide an official response on the results of the consideration.<br \/>\n*   **Subject Matter of the Inquiry:** The submitting entity (a group of deputies led by A. Skorokhod), the addressee (the President of Ukraine), and the ultimate goal \u2014 consideration of the issue of conferring the highest state title of Hero of Ukraine (posthumously) on a specific soldier of the 72nd OMBr, Artem Sierenkov \u2014 are clearly defined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zakon.rada.gov.ua\/go\/4898-20\"><strong>Full text by link<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**** **1. Substance of the Act** This Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is an official procedural decision of the parliament aimed at implementing the function of parliamentary oversight. The document provides for the forwarding of an inquiry of a group of People&#8217;s Deputies (initiated by A.K. Skorokhod) to the President of Ukraine regarding&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukrainian-legislation-general-en","category-ukrainian-legislation-important","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":{"patreon-level":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lexcovery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}