Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Ruslan Demchenko from the post of First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. The decree was published on the website of the President of Ukraine.

The reasons for this decision are not specified.

Ruslan Demchenko until 1996 worked as a second secretary at the Ukrainian Embassy in the United States. Since 2000, he was Consul General in Istanbul, then - Ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro. He worked as the head of the President's Office under Viktor Yushchenko. After 2010, he was the first deputy foreign minister, an adviser to Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky, and then moved to his current position. As the media remind , in 2010 Demchenko lobbied for the "Kharkov agreements", according to which Ukraine extended the stay of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea.

Earlier, Zelensky dismissed the country's Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova and the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov.