KIEV, Feb. 26 - Ukraine's protest leaders on Wednesday named the ministers they want to form a new government following the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych.

In Kiev's Independence Square, the heart of the protest movement against Yanukovych, the interim leaders who seized control after he disappeared proposed Arseniy Yatseniuk as the country's new prime minister.

The 39-year-old served as economy minister, foreign minister and parliamentary speaker before Yanukovych took office in 2010, and is widely viewed as a technocratic reformer who enjoys the support of the U.S.