KIEV: Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko on Monday dissolved the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) and announced early legislative elections.

The president dissolved the Rada “as this is the only correct and responsible decision,” his spokesperson Svyatoslav Tsegolko said on Twitter.

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