The Verkhovna Rada has appointed Ruslan Strelets as the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, who has been acting Minister of this department since November 2021.
The corresponding decision at the meeting of the Rada on Thursday was supported by 285 people’s deputies with the minimum required 226 votes, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak (Voice faction) wrote in his Telegram channel.
Sagittarius before appointment Minister of Ecology of Ukraine, worked in the department as Deputy Minister for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitalization (from July 2020 to November 2021).
Previously, Strelets was Deputy Director of the Department for Waste Management, Environmental Safety and Transition to a Circular Economy of the Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine.
