Ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili to become New Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister
143
A new deputy prime minister will soon appear in the Ukrainian government, the former president of Georgia and the ex-governor of the Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili, will occupy this position, Ukrainian media reported.
As Saakashvili himself stated, the post of deputy prime minister was proposed to him by the president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, and he accepted it. In his new position, the ex-president of Georgia will deal with issues of interaction with the IMF and other economic issues. He spoke about this at a briefing.
According to Saakashvili, he treats the new post with great responsibility and will promote the transformation of the "Zelensky team" in order to "save Ukraine." He already "talked about this with Prime Minister Shmygal."
Ukraine is entering a very strong economic storm, a real tsunami, a crisis. We need to find very extraordinary steps in order not only to save the Ukrainian economy, but to weaken the blow to every Ukrainian family and save the state in general
- quotes the Nash TV channel to the words of the former governor of Odessa region.
It is reported that Sakashvili’s candidacy for the post of deputy prime minister was supposed to be approved at an extraordinary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, but was postponed. Now there are discussions at the level of factions.
Our news channels
Subscribe and stay up to date with the latest news and the most important events of the day.
Dear reader, to leave comments on the publication, you must sign in.
"Right Sector" (banned in Russia), "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (UPA) (banned in Russia), ISIS (banned in Russia), "Jabhat Fatah al-Sham" formerly "Jabhat al-Nusra" (banned in Russia) , Taliban (banned in Russia), Al-Qaeda (banned in Russia), Anti-Corruption Foundation (banned in Russia), Navalny Headquarters (banned in Russia), Facebook (banned in Russia), Instagram (banned in Russia), Meta (banned in Russia), Misanthropic Division (banned in Russia), Azov (banned in Russia), Muslim Brotherhood (banned in Russia), Aum Shinrikyo (banned in Russia), AUE (banned in Russia), UNA-UNSO (banned in Russia), Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people (banned in Russia), Legion “Freedom of Russia” (armed formation, recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation and banned), Kirill Budanov (included to the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists)
“Non-profit organizations, unregistered public associations or individuals performing the functions of a foreign agent,” as well as media outlets performing the functions of a foreign agent: “Medusa”; "Voice of America"; "Realities"; "Present time"; "Radio Freedom"; Ponomarev Lev; Ponomarev Ilya; Savitskaya; Markelov; Kamalyagin; Apakhonchich; Makarevich; Dud; Gordon; Zhdanov; Medvedev; Fedorov; Mikhail Kasyanov; "Owl"; "Alliance of Doctors"; "RKK" "Levada Center"; "Memorial"; "Voice"; "Person and law"; "Rain"; "Mediazone"; "Deutsche Welle"; QMS "Caucasian Knot"; "Insider"; "New Newspaper"
Information