Ministry of Veterans Affairs
The Ministry of Veterans Affairs was created for the following categories:
- those injured during the Revolution of Dignity,
- military service veterans,
- war participants,
- war invalids and persons with special merits to the Motherland,
- combatants and family members of the fallen.
Iryna Friz headed the ministry from November 2018 to August 2019. Ministers or acting ministers also included Oksana Koliada, Serhii Bessarab, Yuliia Laputina, Oleksandr Porkhun and Nataliia Kalmykova.
In July 2026, Vitalii Kim was appointed minister.
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