Former Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin has been appointed to a diplomatic post – he has been appointed Ukraine’s ambassador to the Netherlands. He will also become Ukraine’s permanent representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
This is stated in the relevant decrees No. 212/2025 and No. 213/2025 of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
‘To appoint Kostin Andriy Yevhenovych as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands,’ the document signed by the President on 7 April reads.
Andriy Kostin resigned from his post in autumn 2024 due to scandals related to the registration of disability by prosecutors.
Kostin is also known for spending 103 days abroad in 2023, half of which were spent in the United States, where his wife lives.
Zelenskyy also appointed:
- Oleksiy Havrysh as Ambassador to Norway.
- Oleksandr Nechytailo as ambassador to China. He is a career diplomat who replaced former Minister of Strategic Industries Pavlo Riabikin as ambassador to China. Nechytailo previously headed the Department for Asia and the Pacific at the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and was ambassador to Malaysia and the Philippines. He is fluent in Chinese.
- Yuriy Klymenko as Ambassador to Argentina and concurrently as Ambassador to Paraguay.
- Viktor Mayko as Ambassador to Kazakhstan.
- Mykhailo Vydoinyk as Ambassador to Finland.
- Andriy Melnyk, former ambassador to Germany, as Ukraine’s permanent representative to the UN.