Tyshchenko joins Restoration of Ukraine group

Non-affiliated member of the Verkhovna Rada Mykola Tyshchenko has joined the Restoration of Ukraine parliamentary group. MP from the Holos faction Yaroslav Zhelezniak announced this on his Telegram channel, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

"Kolia Tyshchenko has joined the Restoration of Ukraine group. Because of Hunko's conviction, they reduced their membership to 16 people, and therefore, for the group to continue to exist, they needed the 17th.... Kolia," he said.

After Tyshchenko's entry, the Restoration of Ukraine group has 17 MPs.

As the Ukrainian News agency previously reported, in early February, MP Anatolii Hunko was taken into custody in the courtroom after the verdict was announced and taken to prison to serve 4 years in prison, he was found guilty of incitement to bribery and fraud.

In June 2025, Tyshchenko was placed under round-the-clock house arrest, suspected of unlawfully imprisoning a former member of the Kraken special forces of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Dmytro Mazokha, and in October, Tyshchenko's preventive measure was reduced from nightly house arrest to personal recognizance.

In January 2023, the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada expelled MP Mykola Tyshchenko from its membership, he was also dismissed from the post of a deputy chairman of the Servant of the People faction, and Tyshchenko was expelled from the Servant of the People party because of his trip to Thailand, allegedly to meet with representatives of the Ukrainian community, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy enacted a decision of the National Security and Defense Council that provides for the possibility of officials traveling abroad only on official business trips. At the time, Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said that the Rada had not sent Tyshchenko on a business trip.