The Verkhovna Rada appoints Ihor Klymenko (who was in charge of the Interior Ministry as acting minister after the tragic death of Denys Monastyrskyy) as Minister of Internal Affairs.
321 MPs voted in favour of the appointment.
From 1994 to 1997, he served as the head of a missile brigade. From 1998 to 2004, he served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) as a psychologist, the Department Head of the Centre of Practical Psychology for the Interior Ministry in Kharkiv Region, and Head of the Practical Psychology Centre for the Personnel Support Department of the MIA of Ukraine.
Since 2011, he has held the positions of Deputy, Head of the Personnel Inspection Division of the Interior Ministry. From December 2011 to March 2014 - Head of the Department of Professional Training and Education of the MIA Personnel Department.
In October 2013, he received a PhD in Psychology with a degree in Legal Psychology.
Since 2014 - Deputy Head of the Personnel Department. From 2015 to 2017, he headed the Human Resources Department of the National Police of Ukraine. Since October 2017, he held the position of Deputy Head of the National Police of Ukraine - Head of the Personnel Department, and since March 2018 - became the Deputy Head of the National Police of Ukraine. Since 25 September 2019, he was the Head of the National Police of Ukraine.
On 18 January 2023, the government appointed Ihor Klymenko as Deputy Minister of the Interior and entrusted him with the duties of Minister of the Interior after the death of the ministry's leadership in a helicopter crash in Brovary.