Zelenskyy replaces head of Ukraine's NATO Mission

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Aliona Hetmanchuk as Head of Ukraine’s Mission to NATO, replacing Nataliia Halibarenko.

Source: European Pravda, citing presidential decrees No 407/2025 and No 408/2025

Details: On 13 June 2025, Zelenskyy dismissed Nataliia Halibarenko from her role as Head of Ukraine’s Mission to NATO. On the same day, he appointed Aliona Hetmanchuk to the position.

For reference: Aliona Hetmanchuk is the director of the New Europe Center, a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, and a regular contributor to European Pravda.

Background:

• In August 2020, Zelenskyy dismissed Halibarenko as Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom and appointed her Head of Ukraine’s Mission to NATO.
• In August 2015, former President Petro Poroshenko had appointed Halibarenko as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United Kingdom.

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