Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tenders resignation, parliament speaker says

Ukraine's wartime Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba tendered his resignation, Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said Wednesday.

"The application will be considered at one of the nearest plenary sessions meetings," the Parliament speaker added in a Google-translated post on the Facebook social media platform.

Kuleba, 43, took on the post of Ukraine's minister of foreign affairs in March 2020 and has been a stalwart figure at the forefront of Kyiv's concerted campaign to curry international favor in its efforts to fight back Ukraine's ongoing invasion at the hands of neighboring Russia since February 2022. He was previously appointed as permanent representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe over 2016-2019.

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Kuleba's potential resignation follows similar steps to stand down on Tuesday from a swathe of Ukrainian ministers reported by state news agency Ukrinform, including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk, the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic IntegrationOlga Stefanishyna, Minister for Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin and Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska.

David Arakhamia, head of the Servant of the People faction in Parliament, had foreshadowed a wide-spread and "major reboot of the government" this week.

"More than 50% of the staff of the [Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine] will undergo changes," he said Tuesday in a Google-translated post on Telegram. "Tomorrow is the day of layoffs, and the day after tomorrow is the day of appointments."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signaled the tide was also set to change in Ukraine's