Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 20 signed two decrees, No. 418/2019 and No. 219/2019, invalidating 159 decrees issued by four of his predecessors, Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Yushchenko, and Viktor Yanukovych.
The decrees which date back to 1991-2001 are almost purely of an economic nature; the later ones (mainly dated 2011-2013) are administrative, regulating various government agencies.
Also repealed are several provisions and clauses in 31 more decrees, including whole paragraphs and clauses on changes to other decrees.
Most of the old decrees were issued under Kuchma and Yanukovych. Only eight of them are Kravchuk’s (1991-1994) and one was signed by Yushchenko in 2005.
None of the decrees by fifth president Petro Poroshenko was repealed, except an article of his decree regulating the Armed Forces’ General Staff.
