Kyiv’s Top Diplomat Resigns Amid Reshuffle

Published on September 4, 2024

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has tendered his resignation, according to the speaker of parliament, amid Kyiv’s most extensive cabinet reshuffle since Russia invaded eastern Ukraine in early 2022. “The Verkhovna Rada [Ukraine’s parliament] has received a resignation letter from Foreign Minister Kuleba,” Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk wrote on Facebook on Sept. 4. Kuleba’s resignation request, he added, “will be considered at one of the [assembly’s] soonest plenary meetings.” Stefanchuk’s statement on Facebook was accompanied by a photo of what appeared to be the foreign minister’s handwritten letter of resignation. Kuleba was appointed Kyiv’s top diplomat in 2020. Since then, he has made numerous high-profile trips abroad to drum up support for Ukraine’s war effort....

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