Ukraine's Prime Minister submitted his resignation on Friday, days after he was caught on tape saying the country's President knows nothing about the economy.

Key points: The PM said he wrote the resignation letter "to dispel any doubts about our respect and trust for the President"

The PM said he wrote the resignation letter "to dispel any doubts about our respect and trust for the President" He was caught on tape saying the country's President knows nothing about the economy

He was caught on tape saying the country's President knows nothing about the economy The Parliament must now vote on whether to accept his resignation

In a Facebook post, Oleksiy Honcharuk said that he had given his resignation to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

"I took this post to implement the President's program. He is an example of transparency and decency to me," he said.

"However, in order to dispel any doubts about our respect and trust for the President, I have written a resignation letter and submitted it to the President for introduction to Parliament," Honcharuk's statement read.

Earlier this week, an audio recording surfaced in which Mr Honcharuk appeared to make disparaging comments about Mr Zelenskiy's understanding of economics.

Mr Honcharuk said that the recording was a compilation of "fragments of recorded government meetings" and blamed unidentified "influential groups" for making it look like he doesn't respect the President.

"It is not true," the Prime Minister insisted.

On Thursday, politicians from the opposition party Opposition Platform-For Life demanded Mr Honcharuk's resignation.

They said he and his cabinet discredit Ukraine's President and exacerbate the economic crisis in the country.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy was criticized for a vague campaign platform and never holding public office but voters appeared to cast aside those concerns. ( AP: Emilio Morenatti )

Members of the ruling Servant of the People party said there were no grounds for Honcharuk to resign.

Ukraine's Parliament must now vote on whether to accept the Prime Minister's resignation.

Mr Zelenskiy has mainly only ever worked as an entertainer since he was a teenager.

However, he is best known for his role in the popular 2015 Ukrainian television series Servant of the People, in which he plays a high-school teacher who becomes president after a video of him denouncing corruption goes viral.

There have also been concerns that Mr Zelenskiy has ties to controversial oligarch Ihor Kolomoysky.

AP