Rada may dismiss three ministers this week: MPs announce resignations
22 April 2024 09:39
Significant personnel changes may take place in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine this week. This was announced by two MPs at once – Yaroslav Zheleznyak (Voice faction) and Oleksiy Honcharenko (European Solidarity faction), Komersant ukrainskyi 
reports.
“Not as loudly as you expected, but very soon you will see a parade of resignations “of their own free will”,
– Zheleznyak wrote.
According to him, although “no one knows the final decision,” there is a possibility
- changes in the government – “3-4 ministers”, and possibly “two deputy prime ministers”;
- the resignation of the Prosecutor General (Zheleznyak clarified that the resignation may not necessarily happen next week);
- dismissal of one or more members of the Accounting Chamber;
- some other changes.
“There is no final decision on specific names, so there may be more changes. But there will definitely be some kind of personnel package,”
– Zheleznyak stressed.
Goncharenko named potential candidates for dismissal in the government.
“Deputy Prime Minister [Iryna] Vereshchuk and [Oleksandr] Kubrakov (questionable, but most likely) will definitely leave. The Ministry of Culture will be disbanded and merged somewhere. Oksen Lisovyi, the Minister of Education, is also likely to be dismissed,”
– the MP wrote.
Some media outlets reported that Minister Iryna Vereshchuk is allegedly to be appointed head of the Ternopil Regional Military Administration. She stated that the information was untrue.
“Firstly, this is not true. Secondly, I would not agree to this. And my leadership is well aware of this,”
– she said.
Vereshchuk added that she is also not going to take up any diplomatic post.
It should be noted that the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine has not had a head since 27 July, when the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Oleksandr Tkachenko. The next day, Rostyslav Karandeyev, the first deputy head of the ICIP, was appointed acting minister, but he has not yet lost the prefix “acting”.
As reported by Kommersant Ukrainian the highest political level has decided to dismiss Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Community, Territorial and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, and Mustafa-Masi Nayem, Head of the State Agency for the Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine.
The dismissal of the two officials was discussed on the sidelines earlier, but the final decision to dismiss them arose from the situation with the construction of inadequate protection at some important critical infrastructure facilities.
Parliament is ready to consider the issue of Kubrakov and Nayem. A week ago, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted to summon Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov and Head of the State Agency for the Restoration and Development of Infrastructure Mustafa Nayem to a meeting to discuss the protection of critical infrastructure following recent Russian missile and drone attacks on such facilities.
