KYIV, Ukraine—In a televised address Sunday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced he would step down Tuesday, marking the end of a two-month-long political crisis.
“We cannot allow destabilization of the executive branch during a war,” Yatsenyuk said.
Ukrainian forces are still battling combined Russian-separatist forces in a 2-year-old war that has killed more than 10,000 and displaced more than 1 million.
Yatsenyuk took over as prime minister in February 2014 after Ukraine’s Maidan revolution ousted pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia.
Accusations of corruption and criticism of austerity measures he helped put in place have marred Yatsenyuk’s term in office.
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Source: The Epoch Times
