Verkhovna Rada dismisses Strilets as environmental protection minister

Yaroslav Zheleznyak, an MP from the Hos faction, announced this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

According to him, 244 MPs voted in favor of this decision.

From 2019 to 2020, Ruslan Strilets served as Deputy Director of the Department for Waste Management, Environmental Safety and Transition to a Circular Economy at the Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection.

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On July 2, 2020, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine for Digital Develment, Digital Transformation and Digitalization.

On November 3, 2021, Strilets was appointed Acting Minister, and on April 14, 2022, he was appointed Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine.

As reported, the Verkhovna Rada received resignation letters from Deputy Prime Minister for Eurean and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine ha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk, Head of the State Prerty Fund Vital Koval, Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba, and Minister for Strategic Industries eksandr Kamyshin.