Changes in the Ukrainian embassies in Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan

April 08, 2025 | 01:00 |5455

On April 7, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a number of decrees on the appointment of ambassadors. In particular, Zelensky dismissed Viktor Mayko from the post of Ukrainian ambassador to Turkmenistan and appointed him ambassador to Kazakhstan, the Ukrainian National News news agency reports. The decree on the appointment is posted on the website of the President of Ukraine.

Viktor Mayko was the Ukrainian ambassador to Turkmenistan twice: from March 2005 to May 2010 (+ from May 2006 to May 2010 he was the Ukrainian ambassador to Afghanistan concurrently), and since April 2021, he has again headed the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in Ashgabat for four years.

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