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\"Zelensky<\/p>\n

President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed new Ukrainian ambassadors to seven countries on April 7, according to decrees published on the president’s website.<\/p>\n

The appointments include Andriy Kostin<\/strong><\/a>, Ukraine’s former Prosecutor General, who resigned in October 2024 amid a major corruption scandal involving hundreds of prosecutors who obtained disability benefits.<\/p>\n

Despite promises to bring Kostin to “political responsibility,” Zelensky appointed him ambassador to the Netherlands<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Previously, a source familiar with decision-making in the Presidential Office<\/a><\/strong> told the Kyiv Independent that Kostin wanted an ambassadorial post in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Kostin has also been appointed Ukraine’s<\/a><\/strong> Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).<\/p>\n

The various ambassadors have been appointed to represent Ukraine in Argentina, China<\/a><\/strong>, Finland, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, the Netherlands, and Norway.<\/p>\n

Andriy Melnyk was formally appointed<\/a><\/strong> as the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations (UN). He was dismissed from his role as ambassador to Brazil.<\/p>\n

Kostin has been criticized for failing to reform the prosecutor’s office<\/a><\/strong> and not obtaining any notable achievements as Prosecutor General. He has been praised for not blocking or sabotaging any high-profile cases.<\/p>\n

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In a way unseen since the start of the full-scale invasion, the daily grind of the front line in Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine has taken the back seat in world headlines. The dizzying U.S. President Donald Trump-led attempts to negotiate peace in the world arena dominate the news cycle<\/div>\n
\"ZelenskyThe Kyiv Independent<\/span>Francis Farrell<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\"Zelensky<\/div>\n

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