Two more deputy ministers have been dismissed from the Ukrainian government as part of the “personnel” changes announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky last night.
“At a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on January 24, a number of personnel decisions were made,” Oleh Nemchinov, the Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, said on Telegram.
He said that Viacheslav Nehoda, the Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine, and Vitalii Muzychenko, Deputy Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine, had been dismissed.
They join Viacheslav Shapovalov, a Deputy Minister of Defense, and Ivan Lukerya, a Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development, in leaving the government.
The dismissals follow that of Vasyl Lozynskyy, the Acting Minister of Communities and Territories Development.
Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry said on Sunday that Lozynskyy had been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement. He has not commented on the allegations.
In addition, the cabinet supported the dismissal of the governors of the Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Sumy and Kherson regions, Nemchinov said.
On Monday night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had signaled that there would be changes to “personnel” within the Ukrainian government, without naming the people impacted.
