“Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada has received a letter of resignation from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba. The statement will be considered at one of the next plenary sessions,” wrote the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ruslan Stefanchuk, on Facebook.
Ukrainska Pravda reports that Ukraine’s Foreign Minister will soon leave his post, citing sources close to the government.
Among the candidates to replace Kuleba is Andriy Sybiga, who is currently Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs I.
Major changes in Ukrainian politics. Mass resignation
News of a possible change in the position of Foreign Minister is part of a larger wave of resignations and shake-ups in Ukraine’s government. Recently, Strategic Industries Minister Oleksandr Kamyshyn, Justice Minister Denys Maluśka, Environment Minister Ruslan Striłeć and Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna have submitted their resignations.
Additionally, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk also announced her resignation. In his farewell statement, he thanked the president, prime minister, government and colleagues for the time and work they spent together.
Dmytro Kułeba calls the regions of Lublin, Podkarpacie and Lesser Poland Ukrainian territory
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy was asked last week at the Polish Campus about the issue of exhuming the graves of Volhynian crime victims. Dmytro Kułeba points out that the Campus participants met in Olsztyn, where the Ukrainian population was resettled in 1947 as part of Operation Vistula.
— All these Ukrainians were forcibly expelled — said the head of Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, referring to the regions of Lublin, Podkarpacie and Lesser Poland as “Ukrainian” regions. He also criticized “digging up history.”
These words immediately caused a great stir in Poland. The Foreign Ministry in Kiev had to speak out on the issue, stressing in a statement that “Ukraine does not make any territorial claims against Poland.”
Who is Dmytro Kuleba?
Kułeba started his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2003 and has since held various positions in the ministry. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs introduced “the concepts of digital diplomacy, strategic communication, cultural diplomacy and public diplomacy” into its work, the ministry’s website reported.
In 2016, he was appointed as Ukraine’s permanent representative to the Council of Europe. In 2019-2020, he served as Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine. He became head of Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in March 2020.
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