UKRAINIAN trade unions have demanded the resignation of MP Galina Tretyakova following a sickening speech in which she said that poor people should be sterilised to reduce the country’s welfare bill.

Ms Tretyakova, of the President Vladimir Zelensky’s Servants of the People Party, made the remarks at a seminar in the Kiev School of Economics last month, as footage recently circulating on social media has revealed.

The MP, who is head of the Ukrainian parliament’s social policy and veterans’ rights protection committee, claimed that social benefits were wasted on the unemployed.