Cabinet Agrees On Appointment Of Kyiv Prosecutor Kiper By Zelenskyy As Odesa Regional State Administration Head

The Cabinet of Ministers has agreed on a draft decree by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to appoint Oleh Kiper, head of the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office, as head of the Odesa Regional State Administration. The representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnychuk announced this on the Telegram channel, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

"The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine agreed on the appointment of Kiper Oleh Oleksandrovych as head of the Odesa Regional State Administration," he said.

Kiper, 43, has been working as a prosecutor in Kyiv since July 2020.

He was born on May 1, 1980 in the village of Tymkove, Odesa Region.

In 2002, he graduated from the Odesa National Law Academy with a degree in Law.

He began work in the prosecutor's office in 2001, in June 2020 he was appointed deputy prosecutor of Kyiv, in July - prosecutor of the capital.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in May Zelenskyy relieved the head of the Odesa Regional State Administration Maksym Marchenko, who had held this position since March 2022.