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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has dismissed Mykhailo Maliarchuk and Borys Andresiuk as deputy defense ministers.

Moreover, Kostiantyn Vaschenko, Vitaliy Muschynin and Anatoliy Dziubak were dismissed as deputy labor and social policy ministers, whereas Artem Volodin was sacked as deputy environment minister.

The head of state dismissed Serhiy Bozhko as deputy head of the State Committee for Nuclear Regulation.

Respective decrees were signed on Wednesday and posted on the official Web site of the president.