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.
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."