Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that Minister of Strategic Industries Pavlo Ryabikin and Minister of Education and Science Serhiy Shkarlet will leave their posts next week. He wrote this on his Telegram channel.
Oksen Lisovoy, director of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, will become the new Minister of Education, and Oleksandr Kamyshin will head the Ministry of Strategic Industry.
Former President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky lay off three heads of regional governments. The relevant decrees are published on the website of the head of state.
The heads of the Odessa and Khmelnytsky regional governments, Maxim Marchenko and Sergey Gamaly, and the head of the Kiev-controlled administration, Sergey Gaidai, who allegedly led the territory of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), were suspended from their posts.
According to the decrees, all three of them were dismissed upon their applications.
Prior to this, it was reported that Volodymyr Zelensky signed several decrees on personnel changes in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), including the dismissal of Oleksandr Yakushev as deputy head of the department.