Ukraine's parliament. the Verkhovna Rada, has sacked the well regarded Oleksandr Danylyuk from the post of finance minister following his bitter conflict with Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman.

The motion was supported by 254 lawmakers, more than the minimum of 226 votes needed to pass the motion in a vote on June 7. The move followed Groysman's official request to the parliament urging the legislature to dismiss Danylyuk. The premier was upset by a letter sent recently by Danylyuk to the G7 ambassadors in Kyiv, in which the latter disclosed details of his conflict with the PM.

Specifically, Danylyuk unsuccessfully tried to get his adviser Yana Bugrimova appointed as deputy minister during a cabinet meeting on May 23. "I've been insisting on appointing Jana for more than two years - since my first days in the office," he wrote.

Danylyuk also informed the G7 ambassadors that he offered Groysman to file a request for the minister's resignation to the nation's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. "I [have] reached the limit in looking for compromises [with the PM]," the letter reads.

Groysman, in turn, branded the letter as unacceptable. "We discussed the issue with colleagues-ministers after the cabinet meeting in the presence of Danylyuk. All colleagues believe that even this letter was absolutely unacceptable, and his reaction was unjustified and emotional," Groysman said in a televised interview in late May.

The prime minister said that Danylyuk apologized for the letter and said that it was his mistake. "Nevertheless, this was the letter not about Danylyuk, who wrote to the European Commission, this was the letter, which disturbs confidence in Ukraine, which is absolutely groundless," Groysman added.

In April 2016, Danylyuk replaced US-born Natalie Jaresko as the country's finance minister. The former investment manager previously served as deputy head of President Petro Poroshenko's administration, as well as being a freelance advisor to Viktor Yanukovych before his ouster. The minister is one of Kyiv's key negotiators with the country's main donor, the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Recently, dt.ua news outlet reported that Groysman considers replacement of the minister by Nina Yuzhanina, head of parliamentary committee on fiscal policy and a close associate of the nation's President Petro Poroshenko. Yuzhanina is well-known for drafting an alternative tax reform in 2015, which was heavily criticized by the country’s main donor, the IMF.