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Zelensky fires Trofimov as first deputy head of President’s Office

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published Nov. 4, 2020. Updated Nov. 4 at 4:00 pm

This handout picture, released by the press service of the Ukrainian Presidential Office on June 24, 2020, shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a medical mask signing a document.

Photo by president.gov.ua

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Serhiy Trofimov from the post of First Deputy Head of the President’s Office.

“To dismiss Serhiy Volodymyrovych Trofimov from the post of the first deputy head of the President’s Office of Ukraine in accordance with his statement,” according to the presidential decree of Nov. 4.

In another decree, Zelensky appointed Trofimov as his (external) advisor.

In the President’s Office, Trofimov was responsible for regional policy.