Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he has held consultations with all candidates for the post of head of the President's Office and that each of them is ready to take up the post.

Source: Zelenskyy during an online press briefing during his visit to Berlin

Details: Journalists asked whether it was true that Mykhailo Fedorov, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, declined the position of head of the President's Office.

Quote: "There are many questions about the President's Office and about the new head.

I want to stress once again that I have held several consultations with everyone you know. All of them are ready to shoulder the responsibility, no one has refused, everyone is ready to head my Office.

I have already said that there are many technical issues related to this, and I have not yet decided who will head the President's Office."

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Background :

• On 28 November, Ukrainska Pravda reported that officers from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) were conducting searches at the office of Andrii Yermak, then head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, in the government district.
• Zelenskyy later announced that he had accepted Andrii Yermak's resignation as head of the President's Office.
• According to Ukrainska Pravda sources, Yermak did not believe until the very last moment that he would be forced to resign. So when he was asked to write a letter of resignation, he lashed out at Zelenskyy in an emotional outburst filled with reproaches and accusations.

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