The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has accepted the resignation of First Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Olena Kramarenko.
The relevant message appeared on the government's Telegram channel.
Olena Kramarenko announced her resignation on her Facebook page on January 23 in the evening.
She thanked everyone for their good work and noted that her goal is to "achieve results, not processes for the sake of processes." Kramarenko rather ambiguously noted that she believes that "she will still work with like-minded people for whom the preservation and restoration of our environment will be a key value."
What did Olena Kramarenko remember while working at the Ministry of the Environment
The experience of the civil service in the field of environmental protection is 18 years, 6 of them in management positions.
She was appointed to the post of first deputy on October 4, 2024. Under the previous minister Ruslan, she was a deputy. Olena Kramarenko dealt with the issues of formation and implementation of state policy in the fields of environmental and strategic environmental assessment assessment, state environmental control, as well as chemical safety reforms in Ukraine.
Under Ostap Semerak's cadence, Olena Kramarenko worked as Deputy Director of the Department of Environmental Safety and Permit Licensing Activities-Head of the Department for Environmental Impact Assessment and Permit License Activities of the Ministry of Ecology.
Scandals
We will remind, after the appointment of Elena Kramarenko in May 2022 as Deputy Minister a scandal broke out . Then, NGO activists opposed her candidacy, as she was allegedly involved in a corruption case worth 200,000. hryvnia, opened in relation to the director of the Department of Environmental Safety and Permitting and Licensing Serhiy Lukyanchuk. The name of Olena Kramarenko also appeared in a number of other corruption scandals.
Also her name mentioned Due to the shadow schemes of sales of wood in national parks. Former employees of the institutions suspected Elena Kramarenko of involvement in large -scale illegal equipment because she was a curator of national parks in Mindovquil.
On October 4 the government appointed Olena Kramarenko as First Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine.
