Ukraine cuts more than 4,000 vacant government posts and trims deputy ministers by about 20% in first stage of civil service reform
Ukraine has eliminated more than 4,000 vacant government posts and reduced the number of deputy ministers by roughly a fifth in the first stage of its civil service reform. Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi says the number of deputies will now depend on each office's workload.
Ukraine's government has launched a civil service reform, and its first stage has removed more than 4,000 vacant posts from the state apparatus. The number of deputy ministers has also been reduced by about 20%.
According to Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi, the number of deputies in each institution will in future be tied to how much work that office carries. This means staffing at the top level will no longer follow a uniform template but will reflect the scale of each body's tasks.
The eliminated positions were vacant, so the step concerns staffing slots that were not being used. The source describes this as the first stage of the reform, which suggests further measures may follow.
The available information does not specify which ministries and agencies are affected, what savings are expected, or when the next steps will be introduced. It is therefore not yet clear how the changes will affect the work of public administration as a whole.
