Reuters, 16/02 17:58 CET
By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s
Western-backed government faced collapse on Tuesday after President
Petro Poroshenko called on the prime minister to resign, deepening the
crisis in a country fighting a recession and a separatist insurgency.
Ukraine’s international backers have invested much money
and political capital backing the government in its stand-off with
Moscow after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 following the ousting
of Kiev’s pro-Russian president by protesters.
But the former Soviet republic’s failure to tackle
endemic corruption and implement reforms has already derailed a Western
aid program that keeps its economy afloat, and a ceasefire with
pro-Russian separatists in the east has been fraying.
Poroshenko said Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk’s
government had lost public support and committed “more mistakes than
achievements”, though he added that Ukraine should try to avoid
disruptive snap elections. The president’s party said it would ask
parliament to hold a no-confidence vote within hours.
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