President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday signed a decree on the appointment of Marina Yuryevna Mikhailenko as the “Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary” of Ukraine to the Portuguese Republic.
The decree was published on the website of the Ukrainian President.
On June 24, 2022, Zelensky decided to fire Acting Ambassador Inna Ognivets, who said she was notified of the decision two days earlier and considers it a “planned rotation.”
On this occasion, according to the Kyiv Independent newspaper, the ambassadors to Georgia, Igor Dolgov, and ambassadors to Slovakia, Yuriy Mushka, were also fired.
Ognivets from the city of Zhovti Vody in the Dnipropetrovsk region (in the south of the country) has been the ambassador to Portugal since October 2015.
A lawyer by training, he taught English before becoming a diplomat. In 2003, she was appointed Consul General of Ukraine in Presov, Slovakia, and from 2006 to 2010 she was Ambassador to the country.
At the end of September last year, in statements to Luce, the former ambassador admitted that she would stop her duties “in the first days of October,” but remained in office for about five more months.
On this occasion, in statements to journalists in Braga, on the sidelines of an action of solidarity with the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, Inna Ognivets called her departure a “normal” process and said that she did not know who would replace her. .
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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