Arsen Avakov to remain as Ukraine's interior minister
Ukraine's interior minister will not be replaced.
According to a source TK Media in the Verkhovna Rada, Arsen Borisovich Avakov will remain as Ukraine's interior minister.
The 55-year-old minister took up the post on February 27, 2014, and by the end of that same year he had proposed a package of reforms for the Interior Ministry.
Yesterday, August 28, a protest against Avakov took place outside the Presidential Office. Protesters demanded that President Zelensky not appoint the current interior minister to the new government.
The Interior Ministry described its work as effective and called Arsen Avakov a "guarantor of balance in power and of preventing its monopolization". However, it acknowledged the validity of some of the protesters' claims: the unsolved murder of Sheremet, attacks on activists, cases of force used against demonstrators, and the investigation into the attack on Handziuk.
On August 23, the interior minister decided to dismiss the heads of the National Police in the Lviv, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia and Zhytomyr regions.
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