Iryna Vereshchuk

On 8 September 2024 she was appointed deputy head of Office of the President of Ukraine subjugated to Andriy Yermak.

On 11 November 2015, she defended a thesis on the topic: "Organizational and Legal Mechanism for Improving the Administrative and Territorial Structure of Ukraine" (using reforms conducted by Poland as an example) and received a degree of Candidate of Science in State Management.

[4] After graduating from Military School, Vereshchuk served as an officer in the Ukrainian Army for five years.

From June to October 2010, she was deputy head of Zhovkva Region[6] State Administration on humanitarian issues and foreign policy.

[3][7] On 17 February 2015, she left her post as mayor of Rava-Ruska due to what she called constant pressure from "pseudopatriots".

[4] In April 2016, Vereshchuk became President of the International Center for Baltic and Black Sea Studies and Consensus Practices.

[4] Since September 2017, she is a PhD (docent) of the Department of Political Sciences of the National Pedagogical Drahomanov University.

"[16] In 2018 Vereshchuk spoke out against the lionizing of Ukrainian nationalist idol Stepan Bandera by "manipulative politicians who wear embroidered shirts.

If an act of a collaboration or taking part in a referendum or even agitation for it will be proved, punishment for this people could be up to 12 years of jail with confiscation.».

Vereshchuk during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine