Ukraine MP accidentally flashes presenter during live TV interview

Oleksiy Kucherenko accidentally showed his bottom half while discussing the energy crisis on Kyiv TV (Picture: Kyiv24/east2west news) A Ukrainian MP appeared to show his genitals in an awkward blunder during a live TV interview.

Oleksiy Kucherenko raised eyebrows when his bottom half was shown in a video call on state broadcaster Kyiv TV.

Its presenter Yulia Gloza, looked shocked as the Batkivshchyna party member adjusted his camera, briefly flashing his private parts in the process.

The mishap occurred during a conversation about the country’s fuel crisis.

Kucherenko, 65, did not explain why he was not wearing any trousers during the interview, but later apologised for the blunder, Odnoboko reported.

The Ukrainian deputy previously ran in a Kyiv mayoral contest, placing fourth and served as minister for housing and communal services between 2007 and 2010.

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In 2014, he lost his seat in Kyiv by a razor thin margin of just 100 votes, before returning to parliament following the 2019 election.

Earlier this week, president Volodymyr Zelensky told a press conference he was hopeful of a breakthrough in peace talks by the end of the year.

‘Of course, we want to get results by the end of this year, and of course, we will be doing everything to make that happen’, he said at an event alongside Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin.

His comments came after two days of negotiations between US and Russian officials in Abu Dhabi, in a summit also attended by representatives from Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the EU.

On Thursday, US special envoy Jared Kushner indicated that Russia was willing to accept the participation of European countries in talks, however the Kremlin did not confirm what would be a change of approach.

Trump’s son-in-law joined fellow US envoy Steve Witkoff for talks with Zelensky Dublin, as Trump’s representatives met Putin in Moscow.

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