Ukrainian President Zelensky fired Governors of Ivano-Frankivsk, Odessa and Sumskaya, reports Ukrainian News Agency.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the chairmen of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional state administration Vitaly Fedorov, ​​who contracted COVID-19, the chairmen of Odessa – Maksim Kutsoy and Sumskaya – Roman Hryshchenko.
According to decrees No. 488-490 dated November 5, the decrees indicate that the governors were dismissed in connection with the submitted application.
Zelenskiy appointed Kutsyi Governor of Odessa in October 2019, Ivano-Frankivsk Governor Fedorov in April 2020, Sumy Governor Grishchenko in March 2020.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on November 4, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft presidential decrees on the dismissal of the chairmen of the Odessa Regional State Administration Kutsy, Ivano-Frankivsk – Fedoriv and Sumy – Grishchenko due to ineffective work.
Also at the end of October, commenting on the elections, the chairman of the Servant of the People party, the first deputy chairman of the faction in the Verkhovna Rada, Alexander Kornienko, predicted in the near future that a number of heads of regional state administrations would be replaced, but he argued that this would not be due to the party’s low score based on local results. elections in their region, and because of the low-performance indicators of their work based on the results of the year.
Earlier, on April 24, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Vitaly Fedoriv as the head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration (RSA).
