Ukraine government survives no-confidence vote
(Vatican Radio) The
government of Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk survived a no-confidence
vote on Tuesday though a majority of lawmakers harshly criticized its work.
Earlier in the day Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko asked the prime minister and
prosecutor-general to resign to "restore trust in the government". As
regional correspondent Stefan Bos reports, the political crisis came amid fresh
fighting in eastern Ukraine that killed several Ukrainian servicemen.
Outside Parliament in Kiev
protesters demanded his resignation. Inside the building Prime Minister Arseniy
Yatsenyuk wasn't welcomed either. Ukrainian President Poroshenko urged him to
step down saying the prime minister had lost the support of the ruling
coalition, which includes Poroshenko's own party, the Poroshenko Bloc.
The Poroshenko Bloc announced
it would vote in the parliament that the government’s work has been
“unsatisfactory” after several officials resigned over a perceived lack of
reforms and ongoing corruption.
The latest standoff comes
also as authorities struggle handle fresh fighting between Ukrainian government
forces and Russian-backed separatists.
Kiev said that at least three
of its servicemen were killed and seven others wounded in the past 24 hours in
clashes with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Officials of Ukraine, Russia
and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were due to meet
Wednesday in Belarus to discuss the difficult road to peace.
More than 9,000 people have
been killed and as many as 1.5 million people are believed to have been
displaced since the conflict began in April 2014.
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