Protesters stand in front of billboard showing jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. AP
KIEV, Ukraine—The prime minister of crisis-torn Ukraine has submitted his resignation.
In a statement Tuesday on the government website, Mykola Azarov offered his resignation in order to encourage what he called “social-political compromise.”
Ukraine has been gripped by protests for two months and the crisis was aggravated in recent days after protesters and police clashed violently.
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