Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has accepted the resignation of the prime minister and his cabinet amid continuing anti-government protests.
Mykola Azarov had offered to step down as prime minister to create “social and political compromise”. The move came after the Ukrainian parliament voted overwhelmingly to annul controversial anti-protest laws. The protests have spread in recent days across Ukraine, even to President Yanukovych’s stronghold in the east. Official buildings in several cities have been occupied. Tuesday saw the interior ministry report that three protesters had stabbed and wounded three policemen in the southern city of Kherson, one of whom later died. At least five people have been killed in violence linked to the
protests. – BBC news
