Government appoints ex-MP Shkrum as First Deputy Minister for Communities and Territories Development

The government's permanent representative in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk, announced this following a government meeting, Ukrinform reports.

He also wrote that Kostiantyn Kovalchuk had been appointed Deputy Minister for Communities and Territories Development.

Melnychuk said that the Cabinet of Ministers had appointed Hryhorii Ishchenko as Head of the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management, Vitalii Chaplia as Deputy State Secretary at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, and Ihor Smilianskyi as Government Commissioner for Customs Reform.

Additionally, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the appointment of Roman Hreba as Deputy Head of the Chernivtsi Regional State Administration.

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