Melnyk dismissed as Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister

Taras Melnychuk, the government's representative in the Verkhovna Rada, said this in a post on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has dismissed Andr Yaroslavovych Melnyk from the post of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine," he wrote.

On June 20, President Vodymyr Zelensky appointed Melnyk as Ukraine's ambassador to Brazil.

Melnyk had been working as Ukraine's deputy foreign minister since November 2022. Prior to that, he served as Ukraine's ambassador to Germany.