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Editor's note: The story was updated at 10:25 p.m. local time when the news appeared about Deputy Prime Minister and Reintegration Minister Iryna Vereshchuk also submitting a letter of resignation.
Strategic Industries Minister Alexander Kamyshin, Justice Minister Denys Maliuska, Ecology Minister Ruslan Strilets, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna, and Deputy Prime Minister and Reintegration Minister Iryna Vereshchuk submitted their resignations to the Ukrainian parliament, Chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk reported on Sept 3.
Vitalii Koval, head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU), also submitted his resignation nine months after being in office.
According to Stefanchuk, Ukraine's parliament will consider officials' resignations "at one of the next plenary sessions."
The reasons for the resignations were not specified. The news came after months of reports about the possible replacement of several Ukrainian ministers.
Head of the Servant of the People's party David Arakhamia said that the reshuffle would affect more than half of the government's staff.
"Tomorrow is the day of dismissals, and the day after that is the day of appointments," he added.
Maliuska has served as the minister since August 2019, shortly after the beginning of President Volodymyr Zelensky's term in office. Former head of state-owned railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, Kamyshin, was appointed minister in November 2023. Strilets has been in office since April 2022.
Stefanishyna has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration since June 2020.
Vereshchuk has served as Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories since 2021.
In early July, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing sources in the presidential team, that Zelensky was considering dismissing Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, who has been in office since 2020.
According to the outlet's sources, potential replacements for Shmyhal included Yulia Svyridenko, the first deputy prime minister and economic development minister, or Oleksiy Chernyshov, CEO of Ukraine's oil and gas giant Naftogaz.
Zelensky said in March that Ukrainians can expect more government reshuffles in the future, following a shake-up of his inner circle.
Infrastructure Minister and Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction Oleksandr Kubrakov and Agriculture Minister Mykola Solskyi were then dismissed in May.
The Kyiv Independent news desk
