Dmitry Kuleba has submitted his resignation, the speaker of the Ukrainian parliament announced

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has submitted his resignation, Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk announced on Wednesday.

“The request will be considered at one of the next plenary meetings,” the parliament speaker added in a message translated by Google on the social media platform Facebook.

Kuleba, 43, took office as Ukraine’s foreign minister in March 2020 and has been a key figure at the forefront of Kiev’s concerted campaign to curry international favor in its efforts to counter neighboring Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine since February 2022. He was previously appointed Ukraine’s permanent representative to the Council of Europe from 2016 to 2019.

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Kuleba’s potential resignation follows similar moves Tuesday by a group of Ukrainian ministers, reported by the state news agency Ukrinform, including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. Olga Stephanishyna, Minister of Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin and Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska.

David Arakhamia, leader of the Servants of the People faction in parliament, had predicted a “major and widespread reboot of government” this week.

“More than 50% of the staff of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers will undergo changes,” he said in a Google-translated message on Telegram on Tuesday. “Tomorrow is the day of dismissals, and the day after tomorrow is the day of appointments.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also signaled that the tide was about to change in Ukraine’s highest political spheres in his late-night speech on Tuesday.

“Autumn will be extremely important for Ukraine. Our state institutions must be organized in such a way that Ukraine achieves all the results we need, for all of us. To do this, we need to strengthen some areas of government, and personnel decisions have been prepared,” he said, adding that the planned changes in the government will lead to “some areas” of kyiv’s foreign and domestic policy acquiring a “slightly different importance.”

“We need a new level of simultaneous information, cultural and diplomatic work. And a new level of relations with the global Ukrainian community. Now it is time to give new strength to the government institutions of Ukraine, and I am grateful to everyone who will help,” he said.

He did not reveal any of the names scheduled to be fired or appointed at the time.

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