Lutsenko asks for the sacking of SAP Nazar Kholodnitsky (as expected)

It is claimed that when asked what blows governments off course, Harold MacMillan answered “Events my dear boy, events”.  Whether or not Mr MacMillan ever said that overworked quote matters little, for there are events that politicians are subjected too, and there are events that politicians engineer.

As such some events are predictable, and one such predictable event is the request by Prosecutor General Yuri Lutesnko to remove Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Nasir Kholodnitsky from office – as forecast some weeks ago.  As the entry made clear, a situational alliance between NABU and the Prosecutor General, notwithstanding the bugging of the SAP office, made it very unlikely that the SAP could continue.  His choice was to resign or be sacked.