{"id":1424291,"date":"2026-08-03T21:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T18:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-dismissed-stefanishyna-and-six-other-ukrainian-ambassadors\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:24:22","slug":"zelenskyy-dismissed-stefanishyna-and-six-other-ukrainian-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelenskyy-dismissed-stefanishyna-and-six-other-ukrainian-ambassadors\/","title":{"rendered":"Major diplomatic shake-up: Zelenskyy recalls Stefanishyna and six Ukrainian ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"631\"><strong>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has carried out a major reshuffle of Ukraine\u2019s diplomatic corps, dismissing Olga Stefanishyna as ambassador to the United States and rotating diplomats in several other countries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"644\" data-end=\"710\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/documents\/6962026-60761\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is stated<\/a> in the decrees of the President of Ukraine, published on the official website of the head of state.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, Zelensky dismissed Olga Stefanyshyna from the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States of America. She had worked in this position for almost a year\u2014since August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the president dismissed:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li data-section-id=\"1ewv5xx\" data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1378\">Volodymyr Khomanets\u2014 from the posts of Ambassador of Ukraine to Tunisia and Libya;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li data-section-id=\"1h7ajzg\" data-start=\"1379\" data-end=\"1431\">Vasyl Khymynets\u2014 from the position of Ambassador of Ukraine to Austria;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li data-section-id=\"25qa1j\" data-start=\"1432\" data-end=\"1493\">Valeria Yevdokimova\u2014from the position of Ambassador of Ukraine to Tajikistan;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li data-section-id=\"r9lyuf\" data-start=\"1494\" data-end=\"1552\">Valeria Zhovtenko\u2014from the position of Ambassador of Ukraine to Kyrgyzstan;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li data-section-id=\"r9lyuf\" data-start=\"1494\" data-end=\"1552\">Kateryna Zelenko\u2014from the posts of Ambassador of Ukraine to Singapore and Brunei (part-time).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1638\" data-end=\"1810\">Also, by presidential decree, Vadym Omelchenko was dismissed from the position of Permanent Representative of Ukraine to UNESCO, which he held concurrently with the position of Ambassador of Ukraine to France.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1812\" data-end=\"1907\">At the same time, Zelenskyy appointed Viktoria Lyalina-Boiko as Ukraine&#8217;s permanent representative to UNESCO.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1055\" data-end=\"1179\">As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-ofitsiyno-pryznachyv-umierova-holovoiu-szr-klymenka-sekretarem-rnbo\/\">President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed decrees on personnel changes in the field of national security<\/a>. Ihor Klymenko became the new Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, and Rustem Umerov headed the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, X,\u00a0<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>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has carried out a major reshuffle of Ukraine\u2019s diplomatic corps, dismissing Olga Stefanishyna as ambassador to the United States and rotating diplomats in several other countries. &nbsp; This is stated in the decrees of the President of Ukraine, published on the official website of the head of state. In particular, Zelensky dismissed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1424286,"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-1424291","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\/1424291","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=1424291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424312,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424291\/revisions\/1424312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1424286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}