Here's more from our news desk on Yatsenyuk avoiding the chop:
Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk Survives No-Confidence Vote In Parliament
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk survived a no-confidence vote in parliament on February 16, hours after President Petro Poroshenko called on him to resign "in order to restore trust in the government."
A total of 194 lawmakers voted that they had no-confidence in Yatsenyuk's government, shy of the 226 votes required to pass the no-confidence resolution introduced earlier in the day by Yuriy Lutsenko, leader of Poroshenko's own party, the Poroshenko Bloc, in parliament.
The vote came amid what opinion polls show is growing disenchantment among Ukrainians with the pro-Western government that took power following the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych, a Kremlin ally, in February 2014.
A presidential statement earlier in the day said Yatsenyuk's government has lost the support of the ruling coalition, which includes the Poroshenko Bloc.
In a televised address, Poroshenko said that in order "to restore [public] trust" in Ukraine, which is fighting a recession and a Russia-backed separatists insurgency in the east of the country, "therapy is no longer sufficient -- it takes a surgery."