Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that the new prosecutor general of Ukraine, who will be unbiased and depoliticized, must be urgently appointed in the near term.

"Society demand obeying law and society takes the side of the police. I as prime minister demand that courts, Prosecutor General's Office and new prosecutor general who must be urgently appointed and who must be unbiased, professional and depoliticized also take the side of law," he said at the patrol police oath taking ceremony in Poltava on Saturday.

He said that Poltava is the sixteenth city of Ukraine where the patrol police has been launched.

Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov said that 245 policemen, including 36 combat veterans of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO, mainly from the Poltava battalion) have started fulfilling their duties in Poltava.