The altercation began when Barna, who has started a petition to remove Yatsenyuk from office, handed the prime minister a bouquet of roses while Yatsenyuk was speaking and then proceeded to carry him off the podium.

Dozens of other parliamentarians rushed to defend Yatsenyuk, and a chaotic fistfight ensued.

Barna's party, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, ousted him from its ranks after the incident, CBS News reported.

The legislative body has “indefinitely postponed” a no-confidence vote against Yatsenyuk’s government that Barna and other Parliament members had been pushing, according to the Financial Times.

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