KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine, Andriy Bohdan, and appointed presidential aide Andriy Yermak in his place on February 11.
Mr. Bohdan served as chief of staff and Mr. Yermak worked as an aide to President Zelenskyy beginning on May 21, 2019. On February 10, according to Presidential Office insiders quoted by the news media, the president and Mr. Bohdan had a tough conversation, which allegedly ended with Mr. Bohdan offering to write a letter of resignation, to which Mr. Zelenskyy replied, “Go ahead and write it.” By that evening, sources in the Presidential Office shared the information that Mr. Bohdan was resigning. The next morning, an official statement was released confirming this information.