Ukraine Dismisses Yevhen Ihnatenko as Head of Maritime Services

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has dismissed Yevhen Ihnatenko, head of the State Service for Maritime and Inland Water Transport and Shipping of Ukraine, from his post.

This was announced by the government's representative in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk.

"Ignatenko Yevhen Oleksandrovych has been dismissed from the post of Head of the State Service of Maritime and Inland Water Transport and Shipping of Ukraine," he said.

Yevhen Ihnatenko is a native of Mykolaiv. He graduated from Mykolaiv Maritime School, Kherson Maritime College of Fisheries Industry, where he received a degree in navigation, and later graduated from Kyiv Academy of Water Transport with the same degree.

In 2020, Yevhen Ihnatenko was elected to the Mykolaiv Regional Council from the Servant of the People party. In the regional council, he became deputy chairman of the Servant of the People faction and deputy chairman of the commission on industrial policy, entrepreneurship, transport infrastructure, water management, energy and energy saving, communications and digitalization. On December 23, 2022, he became the Head of the Service of Maritime and Inland Water Transport and Shipping of Ukraine.

The current first deputy head, Mykola Kravchuk, who was born in Kyiv, was temporarily assigned the duties of the head of the service.

Mykola Kravchuk graduated from the National Academy of Internal Affairs with a Bachelor of Laws degree in Law, and from the National Academy of Internal Affairs with a Bachelor of Laws degree in Law.

From 2011 to 2023, he held senior positions at enterprises, in particular, from 2022 to 2023, he was Deputy Director and First Deputy Director of Kyivblagoustrii. In May 2023, he was elected to the position of the Head of Obukhiv District State Administration of Kyiv Region.

Кирило Бойко