Former head of education in Odesa became an assistant to MP Honcharenko

Olena Buynevych , former director of the Department of Education and Science of the Odesa City Council, has become an assistant to MP Oleksiy Honcharenko.

This was reported by the Center for Public Investigations with reference to the press service of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

In the list of MP's assistants, Olena Buynevych is listed as an assistant working under a fixed-term employment contract on a permanent basis. This is unlike deputies of Odesa City Council Petro Obukhov or Oleksiy Potapsky.

Olena Buynevych has been heading the Department of Education in Odesa since January 2015, when the then mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov appointed her acting director of the department. At that time, she was named Teacher of the Year 2014. She was 39 years old at the time and was in charge of school No. 44 as principal.

On October 14, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree officially depriving the official of Ukrainian citizenship. On October 15, he signed a decree appointing the head of the Dnipro Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Lysak, as the head of the newly created Odesa City Military Administration.

On November 7, 2025, Olena Buynevych, Director of the Department of Education and Science of the Odesa City Council, announced that she was resigning from her position.

Prior to her resignation, Andrii Zarytskyi, acting director of the Finance Department of the Odesa City Council, also wrote a letter of resignation. Deputy Mayor Valeriy Silin, who is under investigation as part of a criminal proceeding in which he is accused of negligence, was also dismissed. Eight people were suspected under part 3 of Article 367 - official negligence - including deputies Anna Pozdnyakova and Valeriy Silin, director of the City Roads utility Vadym Todiychuk, and director of the Municipal Economy Department Leonid Hrebenyuk.

Кирило Бойко