{"id":1360681,"date":"2026-02-20T20:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zheleznyak-zelensky-explained-the-appointment-of-galushchenko-as-minister-of-justice-with-full-trust\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:33:10","slug":"zheleznyak-zelensky-explained-the-appointment-of-galushchenko-as-minister-of-justice-with-full-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zheleznyak-zelensky-explained-the-appointment-of-galushchenko-as-minister-of-justice-with-full-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Zheleznyak: Zelensky explained the appointment of Galushchenko as Minister of Justice with full trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"692\" data-end=\"900\"><strong>People&#8217;s Deputy from the Holos faction Yaroslav Zheleznyak stated that President Volodymyr Zelensky personally explained the appointment of Herman Halushchenko to the position of Minister of Justice during the change of government in July 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"902\" data-end=\"948\"> Yaroslav Zheleznyak <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1PtXnsx3EZ\/?mibextid=wwXIfr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> this on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"950\" data-end=\"1279\"> According to the deputy, in mid-July 2025, a change of government took place. Svitlana Grinchuk took the position of Minister of Energy, and Herman Galushchenko left the position of Minister of Energy. According to Zheleznyak, initially Galushchenko was not appointed to another position, but later a decision was made to nominate him to the position of Minister of Justice.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1281\" data-end=\"1575\"> The People&#8217;s Deputy noted that before the vote, a meeting of the &#8220;Servant of the People&#8221; faction was held with the participation of the president. During the meeting, one of the people&#8217;s deputies, according to Zheleznyak, asked Zelensky why an &#8220;obviously problematic person&#8221; was being proposed for the position of Minister of Justice, mentioning the story with the reactors.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1577\" data-end=\"1785\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> According to Zheleznyak, the president replied: &#8220;He is a very good lawyer, I trust him completely.&#8221; He also said that Zelensky added: &#8220;We thought he would be the deputy prime minister, but for now he is just the minister of justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1577\" data-end=\"1785\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As previously reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sud-vziav-pid-vartu-eksministra-halushchenka\/\">on February 17, the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court chose a preventive measure for former Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1577\" data-end=\"1785\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-nabu-pidtverdyly-zatrymannia-halushchenka\/\">the National Anti-Corruption Bureau confirmed the detention of former Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko<\/a> while attempting to travel abroad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People&#8217;s Deputy from the Holos faction Yaroslav Zheleznyak stated that President Volodymyr Zelensky personally explained the appointment of Herman Halushchenko to the position of Minister of Justice during the change of government in July 2025. Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported this on Facebook. According to the deputy, in mid-July 2025, a change of government took place. Svitlana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1321108,"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-1360681","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\/1360681","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1321108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}