3 Ukrainian ministers request resignation

By Elena Teslova

MOSCOW (AA) - The Ukrainian parliament has received applications for the resignation of three ministers, its speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said on Tuesday.

Strategic Industries Minister Alexander Kamyshin, Justice Minister Denis Malyuska, Environment Protection and Natural Resources Minister Ruslan Strelets, and Vitaly Koval, the head of the State Property Fund, are stepping down, he said on Telegram.

All applications will be considered at the next plenary session, Stefanchuk said.

Malyuska assumed the post on Aug. 29, 2019, and is a member of the presidential Servant of the People party.

Kamyshin took office in March 2023 and was chairman of the board of Ukrainian Railways before that.

Strelets has been the minister of environmental protection and natural resources since April 2022.