KIEV, Nov. 11 – A total of 354 officials have been dismissed since the start of Ukraine's new disclosure law, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko said.

"Since the start of lustration 354 persons were dismissed and hundreds of officials wrote resignation applications themselves," he said on the Ukraina television channel late on Monday.

Petrenko expressed confidence that the officials dismissed do not have prospects for challenging their dismissal in courts, as they were fired under Ukrainian law.