KIEV, March 15 - The chances of Ukraine forming a new technocrat government to replace Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk faded on Tuesday after cross-party talks failed to produce a breakthrough, likely prolonging a months-long political crisis, Reuters reported.

Yatseniuk's government has been hanging by a thread since three smaller parties quit his coalition and President Petro Poroshenko pushed for the premier to resign. Technocrat Finance Minister Natalia Jaresko was touted as a possible replacement.