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| Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign | Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign |
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| The Ukrainian Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has announced he will resign next week, blaming politicians' failure to enact "real changes". | The Ukrainian Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, has announced he will resign next week, blaming politicians' failure to enact "real changes". |
| Mr Yatsenyuk, in office since former pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in February 2014, said he would inform parliament on Tuesday. | Mr Yatsenyuk, in office since former pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in February 2014, said he would inform parliament on Tuesday. |
| The current President, Petro Poroshenko, asked him to quit in February, saying he had lost support. | The current President, Petro Poroshenko, asked him to quit in February, saying he had lost support. |
| His government has been accused of inaction and corruption. | His government has been accused of inaction and corruption. |
| The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has threatened to withhold aid money if it does not carry out reforms. | |
| Parliamentary Speaker Volodymyr Groysman has been nominated by Mr Poroshenko's party to replace Mr Yatsenyuk. | |
| Announcing his resignation on Twitter, Mr Yatsenyuk called for the formation of a new government immediately to prevent "destabilization of [the] executive branch during a war". | |
| The government in Kiev is signed up to an uneasy truce with pro-Russian rebels in two of Ukraine's eastern regions, with frequent ceasefire violations reported. | |
| Russia itself annexed the southern region of Crimea two years ago after a controversial referendum on self-determination. | |
| "As of today," Mr Yatsenyuk tweeted on Sunday, "my goals are broader: new electoral law, Constitutional reform, Judicial reform, Ukraine's membership in the EU and NATO." | |
| Ukraine's EU ambitions suffered a setback on 6 April when voters in the Netherlands roundly rejected a landmark EU trade deal with the former Soviet state in a referendum. | |
| Mr Yatsenyuk came to power promising to tackle corruption and implement economic reforms but has increasingly become the focus of accusations of corruption, even though no concrete evidence was produced. | |
| Western governments have expressed concern over the resignation of reform-minded figures from the government. | |
| President Poroshenko himself came under scrutiny this week after leaked documents suggested he had set up an offshore company as a tax haven using Panamanian legal firm Mossack Fonseca. | |
| He said he had done nothing wrong and Ukrainian prosecution officials said there was no evidence of a crime but there were calls for his impeachment. |