Servant of the People political faction holds meeting on new candidates for ministerial posts

On 4 September, the Servant of the People faction met to discuss the process of reshuffling the government.

Source: sources of Ukrainska Pravda in the faction; David Arakhamia, the head of the Servant of the People party faction in the Ukrainian parliament; Iryna Vereshchuk on Facebook

Details: As a result of the meeting, it was revealed that:

Iryna Vereshchuk will join the President's Office to work on social policy. The Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, which was previously a separate organisation, will be liquidated and its functions transferred to Ukraine's Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development.

Olha Stefanishyna will be appointed Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and Minister of Justice.

Oleksandr Kamyshin will become presidential adviser on strategic industries, with Herman Smetanin, the current head of Ukroboronprom (a strategic manufacturer of weapons and military hardware in Ukraine), taking his place in the cabinet.

Instead of Dmytro Kuleba, his current first deputy, Andrii Sybiha, will become Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Instead of Ruslan Strilets, Svitlana Hrynchuk, the current Deputy Minister of Energy, will be appointed Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources.

Matvii Bidnyi will be appointed Minister of Youth and Sports in Ukraine.

Vitalii Koval, currently the chairman of the State Property Fund, will lead the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.

Mykola Tochytskyi will be the Minister of Culture and Information Policy.

Nataliia Kalmykova, the current Deputy Minister of Defence, will be appointed Minister of Veterans' Affairs.

Oleksii Kuleba will be named Minister for Communities, Territories, and Infrastructure Development. The ministry is set to be separated in the near future.

Updated: Arakhamiia later confirmed the information regarding the appointments and reported that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been present at the meeting. 

Iryna Vereshchuk reported that she will take the office of the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

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