Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said in a televised address on April 10 that he has decided to resign, less than two months after surviving a no-confidence vote in parliament.
 

Turkey and Ukraine have deepened political, military and economic ties through consecutive high-level visits following the Turkish military's downing of a Russian warplane in November 2015 and the deterioration in ties between Ankara and Moscow. 

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is to make an official visit to Turkey on March 9-10, the Ukrainian president's office said in a statement on March 7. 

Poroshenko will carry out talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, according to the statement. 

Poroshenko will also meet with Turkish Parliament Speaker ?smail Kahraman.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asked the country's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to step down.

Poroshenko on Tuesday issued a statement saying that Yatsenyuk's cabinet had lost the support of the ruling coalition, but that Ukraine "has no time for elections."

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has said Kyiv can buy gas from the European Union at a cheaper rate than Russia has offered, adding that the average price of gas from the EU stands at about $200, as reported by Sputnik on Jan. 10. 

A planned "Nord Stream 2" pipeline will hurt the EU's security and help Russia control the bloc's energy markets, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk opined on Thursday.

He called on the EU Commission "to seriously get into the issue" and prevent Russia from facilitating "a bottleneck".