{"id":1320681,"date":"2025-11-14T16:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelensky-s-entourage-is-crumbling-two-ministers-removed-from-the-national-security-and-defense-council\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:02:41","slug":"zelensky-s-entourage-is-crumbling-two-ministers-removed-from-the-national-security-and-defense-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelensky-s-entourage-is-crumbling-two-ministers-removed-from-the-national-security-and-defense-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky&#8217;s entourage is crumbling: two ministers removed from the National Security and Defense Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has removed Svitlana Hrynchuk and Herman Halushchenko from the National Security and Defense Council. He signed Decree No. 845\/2025, which was published on the president&#8217;s website on November 14.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s2\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/president.gov.ua\/documents\/8452025-57121\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">the press service of the head of state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">In fact, Zelensky is demonstrating an attempt to distance himself from the ministers whose names were at the center of one of the most high-profile corruption scandals in recent years. The decree amends the document of July 19, 2025, completely removing Grinchuk and Halushchenko from the NSDC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">As a reminder, on November 12, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hrynchuk-napysala-zaiavu-pro-vidstavku-z-posady-ministra-enerhetyky\/\">Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk submitted her resignation<\/a> . A few hours later, Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko announced that Justice Minister Herman Galushchenko would also be forced to resign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"> <span class=\"s1\">As a reminder, the president&#8217;s team is trying to minimize reputational losses, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/velykyy-koruptsiynyy-skandal-okhopyv-holovnykh-soiuznykiv-zelenskoho\/\">but the scandal hits Zelensky&#8217;s inner circle directly<\/a> and calls into question his control over the government and security forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has removed Svitlana Hrynchuk and Herman Halushchenko from the National Security and Defense Council. He signed Decree No. 845\/2025, which was published on the president&#8217;s website on November 14. This was reported by the press service of the head of state. In fact, Zelensky is demonstrating an attempt to distance himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1274270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1320681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1274270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}