Volodymyr Groysman

Ukrainian parliament approved the resignation of Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk. The decision was taken by 353 votes in favour and 226 against.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed Deputy Prime Minister Denys Shmygal as Honcharuk's successor. He criticized the cabinet, which was formed only six months ago. 

Ukraine's Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman threatened to quit on June 4 if parliament failed to enable the creation of a special anti-corruption court, which it is due to vote on June 7.

Officials from Moldova and Ukraine signed two cooperation documents in Kiev on Thursday evening to liberalise ground and air transport between the two countries - part of attempts to boost economic cooperation.

The new agreements will reduce bureaucracy and eliminate authorisations so people and goods can travel more freely between Ukraine and Moldova.

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated after massive explosions and a blaze at a military ammunition depot in central Ukraine.

Ukranian emergency services said the blasts occurred at a military base near Kalynivka in the Vynnytsya region, 270km (168 miles) west of Kiev.

One person was injured, it said.

Ukraine and Turkey are set to sign an agreement allowing their citizens to travel to each other's countries without passports, Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman has said ahead of a two-day visit to Turkey's capital Ankara starting on March 14.        

Ukraine's new Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said his country will neither hold negotiations nor purchase fuels from Russia.

"We can build relations with any neighbor if they are not aggressors or murderers. If they are... what could we talk about?" UNIAN news agency quotes him as telling TV station 24.

The Parliament in Ukraine on Thursday confirmed Volodymyr Groysman as the country's new Prime Minister, following the resignation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk earlier this week.

Groysman, until now Parliament Speaker since 2014, was backed by 257 MPs, out of 390 who voted.

Ukraine's parliament on April 14 appointed pro-Western speaker Volodymyr Groysman as prime minister in a bid to end months of political gridlock and unlock vital aid to the war torn-state.
 

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will submit his resignation to the country's parliament next week.

Yatsenyuk made this announcement in his weekly appearance on TV on Sunday, saying that his resignation will be tabled to parliament on Tuesday.

Yatsenyuk blamed the failure of politicians to "enact real changes", the BBC quotes him as saying.

President Klaus Iohannis will pay an official visit to Ukraine on Tuesday; he will meet his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko.

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The Presidential Administration has announced that Iohannis will hold a press conference at the Henri Coanda airport of Otopeni, near Bucharest, around 8.45am, before leaving.