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Zelenskyy appoints Vereshchuk as Yermak's deputy

Zelenskyy appoints Vereshchuk as Yermak's deputy

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Iryna Vereshchuk as the Deputy Head of the Office of the President.

This is stated in Decree No. 621 of September 8, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

"To appoint Iryna Andriivna Vereshchuk as the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine," the Decree reads.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on September 5, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Iryna Vereshchuk, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, from the position she had held since November 2021.

On September 3, Vereshchuk tendered her resignation and announced that she was moving to the Office of the President to the position of the Deputy Head of the President's Office.

From July 2019 to November 2021, Vereshchuk was a member of the Rada from the Servant of the People.

In the fall of 2020, she participated in the mayoral election of Kyiv on behalf of this party, where she took 3rd place in the 1st round.

On September 5, Zelenskyy dismissed the deputy head of the Office of the President Mykola Tochytskyi, Oleksii Kuleba, and Yuliia Sokolovska. Sokolovska oversaw social policy issues in the President's Office.