Taras Kutovy

Taras Viktorovych Kutovy (Ukrainian: Тарас Вікторович Кутовий; 25 February 1976 – 21 October 2019) was a Ukrainian economist and politician who served as Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food from 2016 to 2018.

[3] He was re-elected in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this time as part of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.

[4] On 14 April 2016, he was appointed minister of agrarian policy and food of Ukraine in the Groysman government.

[5] On 23 May 2017, he announced that he wanted to resign from this position and asked lawmakers to support his decision.

[2] Kutovy died in a helicopter crash in Ukraine's Poltava Oblast on 21 October 2019 at the age of 43.