Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and several other senior government figures resigned in what appears set to be the biggest Cabinet shuffle and government reorganization since the full-scale invasion of 2022.
Kuleba joins more than half a dozen colleagues, including the ministers of Strategic Industries, Justice, Reintegration and Ecology Minister, resigned, along with the deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Olha Stefanishyna, and Vitalii Koval, head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU), in resigning.
The ministers gave no public reason for their resignations, tendered to Parliament over the last 24 hours or so, after months of rumors of an impending Cabinet shuffle. However, many of them are expected to change roles but stay with the government.
"We need to strengthen some areas in the government – and personnel decisions have been prepared," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address to the nation. "I also expect that certain areas of our foreign and domestic policies will have a slightly different emphasis."
The ministers of Strategic Industries, Justice, Reintegration and Ecology Minister, resigned, along with the deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Olha Stefanishyna, and Vitalii Koval, head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU).
Stefanishyna, who has led Ukraine's push to join the European Union and NATO, will likely receive a bigger, but related role, the Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne reported.
Strategic Industries Minister Oleksandr Kamyshin, who has led Ukraine's weapons production, said on Telegram that he's moving to a separate role but still within the area of defense.
