Several of Andrii Yermak's advisors remained to work in the Office of the President of Ukraine after the dismissal of the chief. This is stated in the President's Office response to the request of the Ukrainian News Agency.
Thus, according to the document, as of January 8, Kyrylo Budanov did not appoint advisors and assistants to himself, but left several who worked with the previous head of the institution.
Thus, Mykhailo Podoliak, Serhii Leshchenko, Ihor Veremiy and Viktoria Strakhova continue to work as President's Office advisors at the Bankova Street. All of them work outside the staff, that is, without receiving financial support for their work.
President's Office response to the request of the Ukrainian News Agency. Screenshot: Ukrainian News
The advisors to the Office of the President can be divided into two blocks: political - Podoliak and Leshchenko - and economic - Strakhova and Veremiy.
Podoliak joined the Office of the President back in 2020. Leshchenko joined the President's Office in 2022, while simultaneously combining work on the supervisory board of Ukrzaliznytsia. Viktoria Strakhova has been working in the President's Office since 2019, when the structure was still called the "Presidential Administration", at the same time she holds the position of representative of the President of Ukraine on the supervisory board of Ukreximbank. Ihor Veremiy is the least public of the four advisors who have remained in positions in the President's Office. He has been advising the President's Office since at least 2023, while simultaneously holding the position of member of the supervisory board of the NBU. Veremiy was also previously Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine (2014-2015), and before that Veremiy worked as director of the department for cooperation with the CIS and the russian federation of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, and was also deputy chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade, when it was headed by Minister of Economic Development and Trade Petro Poroshenko in the government of Mykola Azarov.
It was previously reported that during the latest personnel rotation in the Office of the President, Serhii Leshchenko spent only the weekend without a position.
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