Ukraine's PM Svyrydenko resigns in Zelenskiy's latest reshuffle

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Ukraine's parliament ​accepted the resignation on Tuesday of Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who stepped down after just a ​year in office at the request of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in a reshuffle for which he has offered little explanation. The motion to accept the 40-year-old economist's resignation passed in parliament, although ​some ‌lawmakers expressed unease about such an abrupt change.