KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament rejected Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk's resignation on Thursday and finally passed legislation he said was needed to finance an army offensive against a separatist rebellion raging in the east and avert a national default on its debts.
The assembly's about-turn on laws it refused to back a week earlier offers relief to Kiev's Western political and financial backers, who had feared Ukraine was sliding deeper into political chaos and might renege on the terms of an international bailout as it heads into a potentially bitter election campaign.