Svitlana Hrynchuk is the new head of the Ministry of Environment

Svitlana Hrynchuk is the new head of the Ministry of Environment sud.ua

Anna Velyka

246 deputies supported this appointment

On 5 September, the Verkhovna Rada voted to appoint Svitlana Hrynchuk as Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine.

This was reported by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine on Telegram.

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Photo: Yaroslav Zheleznyak, Telegram.

A few hours earlier, the Committee on Environmental Policy and Environmental Management held a meeting via videoconference and recommended that the Verkhovna Rada "appoint Hrynchuk Svetlana Vasylivna to the post of Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine."

This was informed by Taras Melnychuk, representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada.

Svitlana Grinchuk is returning to the Ministry of the Environment after a year of working as deputy minister of energy Herman Galushchenko. In 2016, she headed the Department for Climate Change and Ozone Layer Protection, and in 2022-2023 she held the position of Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine for European Integration.

 

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that on September 3, the Minister of Environmental Protection Ruslan Strelets wrote resignation letter, and the very next day The Verkhovna Rada supported it .

On September 5, it became known that faction "Servant of the People" proposed Svetlana Grinchuk for the position of head of the Ministry of Environment.

You can find out who Svitlana Grynchuk is and what professional experience she has in environmental and other fields in our material.

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