KIEV, Sept. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko sacked Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's government on Thursday for alleged corruption and loss of team spirit.

    Tymoshenko accused Yushchenko on Friday of jeopardizing the country's future by firing her government and vowed to fight him as a parallel team in a parliamentary poll next year.

    As Yushchenko pressed parliamentary group leaders to work with a new government under acting Prime Minister Yury Yekhanurov, analysts said much depends on which way Tymoshenko would now go.

    CORRUPTION CHARGES

    Yushchenko's chief-of-staff, Oleksandr Zinchenko, resigned last week and leveled charges of corruption against high-level officials, including Petro Poroshenko, head of the Security and Defense Council and a close ally of the president.

    Yushchenko accepted on Thursday the resignation of Poroshenko who quit after two other top officials accused him of corruption.

    Also on Thursday, Vice Prime Minister Mykola Tomenko and Olexander Turchinov, head of Ukraine's security service, submitted their resignations in a move to demonstrate innocence. The officials, who all denied corruption charges, have accused Zinchenko of splitting the government and vowed to resort to courts for justice.

    GOVERNMENT INFIGHTING

    Yushchenko won the general election last year thanks to the staunch support of Tymoshenko who was later appointed as the first prime minister. However, Tymoshenko has never been the favorite among Yushchenko's allies, headed by Poroshenko.

    Thanks to the president's intervention, almost every key sector of the government is evenly divided between his supporters and Tymoshenko's allies, leading to an endless power struggle between political forces and low inefficiency in the government.

    Yushchenko said in televised remarks Thursday that conflicts between Poroshenko and Tymoshenko "became an everyday agenda," which demonstrated the lack of "team spirit" and mutual trust among the officials.

    The president said he had decided to act in the interests of both the government and the voters.