Zelenskyy creates council on de-occupation of Crimea, approved its staff

This is stated in President Zelenskyy's decree, which is published on the website of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 283/2023 amended the Regulations on the Advisory Council on De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol, which was approved in August last year.

The decree also approved the staff of the Advisory Council. President Zelenskyy became its chairman. Tamila Tasheva, the Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, was appointed Secretary of the Council. In addition to him, the list includes the following persons:

Ministers

• Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk;

• Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba;

• Minister of Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov;

• Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko;

• Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov.

Representatives of the Presidential Office

• Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine - Andriy Yermak;

• Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine - Ihor Zhovkva;

• Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Kuleba;

• Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Roman Mashovets;

• Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Syhiba.

MPs

• Vadym Halaychuk;

• Mustafa Dzhemiliev;

• Andriy Zadorozhnyi;

• Serhiy Ionushas;

• Yevhenia Kravchuk;

• Maria Mezentseva;

• Oleksandr Merezhko;

• Mykyta Poturaiev;

• Yehor Cherniev.

Representatives of the power bloc

• Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov;

• Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin;

• Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Maliuk;

• Deputy Minister of Defense Oleksandr Pavliuk;

• Head of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol Ihor Ponochovnyi.

Representatives of organizations

• Tetiana Pechonchyk, Head of the Board of the Human Rights Information Center; 

• Daria Spyridova, expert of the Ukrainian Legal Advisory Group NGO;

• Olha Skrypnyk, Head of the Board of the Crimean Human Rights Group; 

• William Taylor, Vice President for Russia and Europe at the United States Institute of Peace;

• Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov;

• First Deputy Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People Nariman Dzhelialov;

• Adas Jakubauskas, Chairman of the Union of the Tatar Community of the Republic of Lithuania.

Officials

• Deputy Minister of Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandra Azarkhina

• Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies Oleksandr Bohomolov

• First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Emine Dzhaparova

• Deputy Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Pavlo Kozyriev

• First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleksandr Kornienko

• Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets

• Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine Iryna Mudra

• Head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine Rustem Umierov

On May 18, Ukraine commemorated the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide.

• On May 18, President Zelenskyy addressed all Crimeans and promised that Ukraine would definitely de-occupy Crimea.