Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has replaced the Deputy Justice Minister Serhiy Petukhov as head of an official delegation after the latter publicly insisted that the man chosen to head the President’s Administration is prohibited by law from holding public office. The decree on the President’s site gives no explanation as to why Petukhov has been replaced as head of Ukraine’s delegation to the 22nd Diplomatic Session of the Hague Conference on Private International Law less than a month after being appointed.
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Andriy Bohdan, a lawyer and adviser to new President Zelenskiy, arrives for a news conference in front of the Presidential Administration headquarters in Kyiv on May 21, 2019.