September 4-5, officials are being prepared for rotation in both the Office of the President and heads of ministries. Among those who are going to be dismissed is the minister of environment and natural resources protection of Ukraine Ruslan Strilets.
This was reported by the people’s deputy Jaroslav Zheleznyak.
In addition to the head of the Ministry of Nature, according to the nardepa, their posts will be lost heads of the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for the reintegration of temporarily occupied territories.
Almost throughout the entire time that Sagittarius holds the position of head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, EcoPolitic hears criticism regarding his activities both from ecologists and environmental activists, and from industrialists. Moreover: in 2023 The European Commission rated it as "2" on a five-point scale, the work of the department he heads to implement European integration reforms in the field of environmental protection.
At the end of 2023, Ukrainian experts also assessed Strilets’ annual work in the position. On their scale he got 4 out of 10 due to the lack of transparency and accountability of the ministry. He was noted as the only minister over the last 4 terms who does not communicate with public organizations.
But this did not stop the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources login in the top 10 richest ministers of Ukraine based on declarations for 2022, as well as become No. 6 in the government on earnings in 2023. The Slovo i Delo publication then reported that the salary of the head of the Ministry of Environmental Protection was much higher than that of the Prime Minister and his deputies.
In 2023, summing up the results of Ruslan Strilets’ annual tenure in office, environmental activists even accused it is that he began to resort to the methods of the era of Yanukovych’s presidency. They said that against the background of criticism of the new bill No. 9136 “On improving the management of objects of the natural reserve fund of Ukraine,” Strelets and his team forced a number of directors of national parks and reserves to write comments in support of the bill.
In June EcoPolitics also said that law enforcement officers are investigating involvement of Minister Ruslan Strelets in a corruption scheme for the purchase of electricity at significantly inflated prices.
