The Verkhovna Rada failed to dismiss Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories. She did not come to report to the Rada.
Only 214 MPs voted for her dismissal. This became known from the broadcast of the meeting, which was conducted by MP Oleksiy Honcharenko.
Prior to the vote on Vereshchuk, the Rada supported the dismissal of Minister of Strategic Industry Oleksandr Kamyshin. There were enough votes for him, and he was the only minister who came to report before the vote. However, there were not enough votes to dismiss the head of the State Property Fund. According to MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak, the permission to dismiss ministers without reporting may disrupt the planned resignations.
Vereshchuk has been heading the ministry since 4 November 2021, and before that she was an MP and government representative in the Verkhovna Rada.
From 2010 to 2015, Vereshchuk was the mayor of Rava-Ruska.
Information about Iryna Vereshchuk's possible dismissal from the government has been reported before, but it did not go further than discussions. In April of this year, according to LB.ua sources, Iryna Vereshchuk was on the list of ministers who were being prepared for dismissal. In addition to her, there were Minister of Agrarian Policy Mykola Solskyy, who was later suspected and dismissed, Minister of Justice Denys Malyuska, and Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov. However, the small faction was unable to make a decision on the dismissal, and Kubrakov and Solskyy were fired in May.