Today, January 5, the President of Ukraine held a meeting with former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba. Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized the importance of strengthening Ukraine’s voice in the world and announced an agreement to determine the directions for further cooperation.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this on social media.
“It is important that Ukraine’s view of world affairs is represented and that it is sufficiently strong. I am glad that Dmytro is on Ukraine’s team, and we have agreed to determine the directions for further cooperation,” the president wrote.
According to RBC-Ukraine, today’s meeting with former Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba may be related to Zelenskyy’s search for new formats for the Foreign Intelligence Service.
“This is another channel of information about what our partners are saying and how they assess the situation in general. To provide the president with more alternatives for decision-making,” said an informed source.
According to him, Zelenskyy has also been thinking for a long time about finding a new systemic position for Kuleba. But, the interlocutor emphasized, much depends on the ambitions and desires of the former minister himself.
“We are talking about either a special format of work, as an advisor or representative of the president, formal or informal. Or about Kuleba heading one institution or another,” the interlocutor of the publication noted, referring in particular to the Foreign Intelligence Service.
As a reminder, today, January 5, Vasyl Malyuk resigned from his post as head of the SBU. Yevhen Khmara, head of Special Operations Center “A,” has been appointed acting head of the SBU, while the final personnel decision is to be made by parliament. Chrystia Freeland has become the president’s advisor on economic development. Serhiy Kyslytsya has been appointed first deputy head of the Office of the President of Kyrylo Budanov.