Ministry for Veterans Affairs
Ukrainian: Міністерство з питань ветеранів
Department overview
Formed22 November 2018[1]
JurisdictionGovernment of Ukraine
HeadquartersKyiv, Ukraine
Minister responsible
Websitemva.gov.ua

The Ministry for Veterans Affairs (Ukrainian: Міністерство з питань ветеранів, romanized: Ministerstvo z pytanʹ veteraniv) is a government ministry in Ukraine.

The ministry was officially established on 22 November 2018.[1] Between August 2019 and March 2020, the ministry was temporarily merged with the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs.

History

On 27 February 2018 the Ukrainian Parliament adopted an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine to create an Ministry for Veterans' Affairs "to ensure the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of social protection of war veterans."[1] The appeal proposed to the Government to establish a Ministry for Veterans' Affairs on the basis of the State Service for War Veterans and Participants of the Anti-Terrorist Operation.[1]

The Ministry's first minister was Iryna Friz, who was appointed (also) on 22 November 2018.[1] On the day of her appointment Friz expected the ministry to be fully functional in June 2019.[3]

On 29 August 2019 the Honcharuk Government merged the ministry with the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs.[4] During the time of merging the agency existed as the State Service of Ukraine on Veterans Affairs that exists since 2014. On 4 March 2020 the new Shmyhal Government undid the merge of the two ministries.[5]

List of ministers

Name of minister Term of office Photo
Start End
Iryna Friz[1] 22 November 2018[1] 29 August 2019[1]
merged with the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs
Serhiy Bessarab 4 March 2020[5] 16 December 2020[6]
Yulia Laputina 18 December 2020[2] Incumbent

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Ukraine parliament appoints Markarova, Friz ministers, UNIAN (22 November 2018)
  2. ^ a b Laputina appointed as Ukraine’s minister for veterans afffairs, Ukrinform (18 December 2020)
  3. ^ (in Ukrainian) FRIZ REPORTED WHEN THE MINISTRY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS WILL WORK, Pryamiy kanal (22 November 2018)
  4. ^ New Cabinet formed in Ukraine The Rada appointed the new Cabinet: Avakov and Markarova remained (РАДА ПРИЗНАЧИЛА НОВИЙ КАБМІН: АВАКОВ І МАРКАРОВА ЛИШИЛИСЬ), Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019)
  5. ^ a b "Ukraine's new Cabinet of Ministers".
  6. ^ (in Ukrainian) The council fired the veterans' minister, Ukrayinska Pravda (16 December 2020)


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