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Ministry for Veterans Affairs (Ukraine)

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Ministry for Veterans Affairs
Ukrainian: Міністерство з питань ветеранів
Department overview
Formed22 November 2018[1]
JurisdictionGovernment of Ukraine
HeadquartersKyiv, Ukraine
Minister responsible
  • Nataliya Kalmykova[2]
Websitemva.gov.ua

The Ministry for Veterans Affairs (Ukrainian: Міністерство з питань ветеранів, romanized: Ministerstvo z pytanʹ veteraniv) is a government ministry in Ukraine.

The ministry was officially established on 22 November 2018.[1] Between August 2019 and March 2020, the ministry was temporarily merged with the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs.

History

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On 27 February 2018, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to create a Ministry for Veterans' Affairs "to ensure the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of social protection of war veterans."[1] The appeal proposed to the Government to establish a Ministry for Veterans' Affairs on the basis of the State Service for War Veterans and Participants of the Anti-Terrorist Operation.[1]

The Ministry's first minister was Iryna Friz, who was appointed (also) on 22 November 2018.[1] On the day of her appointment Friz expected the ministry to be fully functional in June 2019.[3]

On 29 August 2019, the Honcharuk Government merged the ministry with the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs.[4] During this time, the agency existed as the State Service of Ukraine on Veterans Affairs that exists since 2014. On 4 March 2020, the new Shmyhal Government unmerged the two ministries.[5]

List of ministers

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Name of minister Term of office Photo
Start End
Iryna Friz[1] 22 November 2018[1] 29 August 2019[1]
merged with the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs
Serhiy Bessarab 4 March 2020[5] 16 December 2020[6]
Yulia Laputina 18 December 2020[7] 7 February 2024[8]
Nataliya Kalmykova[2] 5 September 2024[9] Incumbent

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Ukraine parliament appoints Markarova, Friz ministers, UNIAN (22 November 2018)
  2. ^ a b "Nataliia Kalmykova on site of Ministry of Defence of Ukraine".
  3. ^ (in Ukrainian) FRIZ REPORTED WHEN THE MINISTRY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS WILL WORK, Pryamiy kanal (22 November 2018)
  4. ^ New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ), Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019)
  5. ^ a b "Ukraine's new Cabinet of Ministers".
  6. ^ (in Ukrainian) The council fired the veterans' minister, Ukrayinska Pravda (16 December 2020)
  7. ^ Laputina appointed as Ukraine’s minister for veterans afffairs, Ukrinform (18 December 2020)
  8. ^ "Рада підтримала відставку Лапутіної з посади очильниці Мінветеранів". nv.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  9. ^ "Мінветеранів очолила заступниця Умєрова Наталія Калмикова". hromadske (in Ukrainian). 2024-09-05. Retrieved 2024-09-05.


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