Lots of reports coming in now, saying Shokin has resigned:
Here's more from our news desk on Viktor Shokin's reported resignation:
Reports: Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Resigns After Poroshenko Request
Ukrainian media and a pro-Western lawmaker say Ukrainian Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin resigned on February 16 after President Petro Poroshenko earlier in the day asked him and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to step down.
The Ukrainska Pravda newspaper cited an unidentified source in Shokin's office as saying that the official tendered his resignation following a statement by Poroshenko saying he and Yatsenyuk should quit "in order to restore trust in the government."
The Ukrainian news portal lb.ua also cited an unidentified source as confirming Shokin's resignation.
Ukrainian lawmaker Mustafa Nayyem wrote on his Twitter feed that Shokin had resigned but did not indicate a source for this information, which could not be immediately confirmed.
Shokin was called out by name earlier this month by Lithuanian-born Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, who announced his resignation and cited a "sharp escalation in efforts to block systemic and important reforms."
With reporting by pravda.com.ua, lb.ua, and Reuters
Here's a video issued by Olga Kalenichenko and Ilya Nikonov from RFE/RL's Current Time TV and RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service
Squatting In Pervomaysk -- Finding Refuge In Eastern Ukraine
Some residents of Pisky and other neighboring villages in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine have moved to the nearby village of Pervomaysk for the winter. Some stay in once-abandoned but still livable dwellings there. Their new houses are relatively comfortable compared to the devastation they left behind. But they are still not home.
