Trofimtseva was Deputy Minister for European Integration / Photo from UNIAN
The government appointed a new acting minister.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has dismissed Acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Maksym Martynyuk and tapped Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food for European Integration Olga Trofimtseva to replace him.
"Today, February 6, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine accepted the resignation letter of Acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Maksym Martynyuk, and appointed Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food for European Integration Olga Trofimtseva as Acting Minister," the agrarian ministry's press service said in a statement on Wednesday.
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As UNIAN reported earlier, Martynyuk was appointed Acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine in early December 2018.
On May 23, 2017, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Kutovyi submitted a letter of resignation. The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, accepted Kutovyi's resignation on November 22, 2018.