Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Jan. 28 that her interior minister, sacked by parliament earlier, would continue to head the ministry as its first deputy.
Parliament dismissed Yuri Lutsenko in a motion led by the Regions Party of Victor Yanukovych — who will face Tymoshenko in a runoff vote for president on Feb.7.
"Today at a government meeting, Lutsenko will be named the first deputy, the acting head and he will head the interior ministry," she was quoted by local agencies as saying on a campaign trip out of Kyiv.
