Dmytro Kuleba at the Ukraine Renewal Conference on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 in Berlin, Germany.
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Ukraine’s wartime foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has tendered his resignation, Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk said on Wednesday.
“The application will be considered at a recent plenary meeting,” the parliamentary speaker added in a Google Translate post on the Facebook social media platform.
Kuleba, 43, became Ukraine’s foreign minister in March 2020 and has been at the forefront of Kiev’s concerted efforts to drum up international support to push back against neighboring Russia’s attacks on Ukraine. Continuing invasion.
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According to reports, Kuleba may resign, after a large number of Ukrainian ministers took similar steps to resign on Tuesday. state news agency ukraine news agencyincluding Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Reintegration of the Provisional Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister for Europe and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olga Stefanisina, Minister of Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin and Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska.
David Arakhamia, leader of the Servant of the People faction in parliament, heralded a broad “major reset of government” this week.
“More than 50 percent of the personnel (of Ukraine’s cabinet of ministers) will be changed,” he said in a statement posted on Google Translate on Tuesday. postal on the telegraph. “Tomorrow is layoff day, and the day after tomorrow is induction day.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hinted in a speech late on Tuesday that the tide was about to change at the highest levels of Ukraine’s political hierarchy.
“Autumn is extremely important for Ukraine. Our state institutions must be set up in such a way that Ukraine can achieve all the results we need for all of us. To do this, we need to strengthen certain areas of government – personnel decisions have Be prepared,” he said, adding that the expected changes in the office would result in “certain areas” of Kiev’s foreign and domestic policy receiving “a slightly different focus.”
“We need a new level of synchronized information work, culture and diplomacy. And a new level of relations with the global Ukrainian community. Now is the time to inject new strength into Ukrainian government institutions, and I thank everyone who is willing to help,” he said .
Zelensky did not disclose any proposed dismissals or appointments at the time.
As with its efforts on the battlefield, Ukraine has been fighting a diplomatic war on multiple fronts, balancing fragile courtships of international financial and military support while trying to clean up its domestic corruption record and pursue EU membership.
With just two months to go before Ukraine’s key ally Washington elects new leadership, there may be a change at the helm of Ukraine’s foreign affairs. The U.S. administration under Joe Biden — including Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris — has so far stood firm in support of Ukraine in its fight with Russia, but former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump Putin has long supported Ukraine, which has previously promised to end the situation in Ukraine.
