Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced his choice for the new secretary of the Kyiv City Council.
“I have decided on a candidate for the new secretary of the Kyiv City Council and have invited all factions to join the discussion. After consultations, I will submit the candidacy of Zoya Yarosh, a deputy from the Voice faction, to the session hall for this position,” Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
Zoya Yarosh was born on December 9, 1976, in the village of Yelanets, Mykolaiv region.
In 2000, she graduated from Odessa State University named after I. I. Mechnikov with a degree in law. In 2006, she graduated from the Kyiv Institute of International Relations of the Taras Shevchenko National
University of Kyiv with a degree in international law.
In 2020, she was elected to the Kyiv City Council of the 9th convocation from the Voice party. She is a member of the standing committee on architecture, urban planning, and land relations.
OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid will visit Ukraine this week for meeting with high-level Ukrainian officials and travel to Donbas, the OSCE press service said.
“Schmid plans to hold talks with senior-level officials, including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, and Dmytro Razumkov, Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament. The talks will focus on the crisis in and around Ukraine and on ways to strengthen co-operation between the OSCE and Ukraine,” the OSCE press service said in a statement released by on Tuesday.
During his visit, the Secretary General will also meet with the staff of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) and the OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine.
She will also meet with representatives of international humanitarian organizations, as well as civil society representatives and youth activists. Schmid also plans to visit eastern Ukraine to see first-hand the situation in conflict-affected areas and the work being carried out by SMM and Project Coordinator in Ukraine on the ground.
A meeting of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky with U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo will take place on January 31, as reported on the president’s official website.
According to the report, a meeting between Pompeo and Zelensky will start at the President’s Office at 12.00.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Danyliuk has said that he is interested in the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine.
“I won’t lie that I am interested,” Danyliuk said in an interview with TSN.Tyzhden, answering the question whether he is interested in the position of the head of the Ukrainian government in the future.
In turn, the journalist noted that Dmytro Razumkov, the leader of the Servant of the People Party, could claim the post of prime minister.
“There are many of those who want it. But that is not the point,” answered the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council.
