- Foreign Minister Kuleba’s resignation comes after Ukraine’s ministers of strategic industry, justice and environmental protection offered their resignations on Wednesday.
- Prime Minister Denys Šmyhal will probably remain in office.
- Kuleb’s successor has not yet been determined, but it will probably be him first deputy Andrij Sybiha, added Ukrainian Pravda.
- The request for an appeal was also filed by the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanišynová and another Deputy Prime Minister and at the same time Minister for the Reintegration of Occupied Territories Iryna Vereščuková.
- The changes are intended to strengthen the government, as Ukraine needs it, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a night speech.
- According to the newspaper Ukrainska pravda, the president also dismissed the deputy head of the presidential office, Rostyslav Šurma.
Strategic Industry Minister Oleksandr Kamyshin is in charge of arms production in the country, which has been resisting Russian invasion for more than two and a half years, Reuters noted. Kamyšin stated that even after his resignation he would like to work in the defense sector, albeit in a different role.
Together with Kamyšin, Minister of Justice Denys Maljuska and Minister of the Environment Ruslan Strilec, as well as the head of the State Property Fund Vitalij Koval, who was approved by the parliament for this position last November, offered their resignations.
In Ukraine, the parliament approves the dismissal of members of the government. According to its chairman, legislators should discuss the resignations at one of the nearest sessions of the Chamber.
According to the authorities, the Sumy region recorded 149 attacks on Wednesday. The Russian strikes left seven wounded.
Explosion in Kiev. Kyiv Independent reporters report, that explosions are heard in the Ukrainian capital. According to available information, Russian drones are attacking.
⚡️Explosions heard in Kyiv.
Multiple explosions were heard in Kyiv at 6:40 a.m. local time, a Kyiv Independent journalist reported.
Ukraine”s Air Force said that Russian attack drones are currently present within the suburbs of the city.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) September 5, 2024
The US government is too fearful of Russia – but his threats of nuclear strikes are empty, nothing would be gained, said retired United States Army General Ben Hodges. “Experts fear that if Ukraine succeeds, Putin’s regime could collapse. But I think it would be good,” said Lightning to News. And how do they evaluate the invasion of the Ukrainians in the Kursk region or the deployment of F-16 fighters? Read the entire interview HERE.
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“The fall will be extremely important. Our state institutions must be structured in such a way that Ukraine can achieve all the results it needs. For this, we need to strengthen some areas of the government, and changes in its composition are prepared. There will also be changes in the presidential office,” Zelenskyy said in a night speech, according to Reuters. According to the newspaper Ukrainska pravda, the head of state dismissed the deputy head of the presidential office, Rostyslav Šurma.
Deputy Jaroslav Železňak in the case Stefanišynová wrote on the Telegram network that the parliament will re-appoint her to the same position on Thursday at the same time, the Ministry of Justice will be added to it.
This information was also reported by the Ukrainska pravda newspaper after the meeting of the parliamentary club of the ruling party, and it was later confirmed by the chairman of the Arachamija club. Another Deputy Prime Minister Vereščuková he will reportedly move to the president’s office, where he will be in charge of social policy, and the Ministry for Reintegration of Occupied Territories will disappear and his agenda will go to the Ministry of Regional Development, whose head will be Oleksiy Kulebaformer deputy head of the presidential office. Meanwhile, Vereščuková herself confirmed that she will become the deputy head of the presidential office.
Arachamija also said that ex-minister Kamyšin will become the president’s advisor for strategic sectors and his seat in the cabinet will be taken over by the head of the Ukroboronprom arms company Herman Smetanin. According to the same source, Kuleb’s deputy Andrij Sybiha will become the new foreign minister, and the current deputy minister of energy, Svitlana Hrynčuková, will replace the minister of the environment. Vitalije Koval, the head of the state property fund, will be the new head of the Ministry of Agriculture. Current Deputy Minister of Defense Natalija Kalmykova will become Minister of Veterans Affairs, Minister of Culture Mykola Tochynskyi, Minister of Youth and Sports Matviy Bidnyi.
