Former Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko unian.net Ukraine needs a new government, the head of the parliamentary committee on national security and defense and former defense minister, Anatoliy Hrytsenko, has said.

"Government members should not be mainly elected from parliament. These should be people who are asked to work in the government under these conditions, people ready to commit political suicide, but who will work normally and stabilize the country at least for a year," his press service quoted him as saying on Monday.

Hrytsenko said the current government is responsible for a worsening the situation in the country as it has failed to conduct comprehensive reforms, stimulate energy saving and fight corruption "at least at a minimum level."

He also said that blame could be attached to the owners of enterprises and oligarchs "who guzzled money during the peak demand on the market and bought yachts and property abroad instead of investing…"