Zelensky appoints Melnyk as UN envoy: what is known about him
8 April 01:13
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Andriy Melnyk from the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Federal Republic of Brazil and appointed him Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. The relevant decrees No. 207/2025 and No. 215/2025 were published on the website of the Head of State.
“To dismiss Andriy Melnyk from the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Federative Republic of Brazil,” reads Decree 207/2025.
By Decree 215/2025, Melnyk was appointed Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations.
The position of UN Permanent Representative was held by Sergiy Kyslytsya from February 2020 to February 2025.
What we know about Andriy Melnyk
Previously, Andriy Melnyk served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine under Dmytro Kuleba. From 2014 to 2022, Melnyk served as Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany.
During his tenure as Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, he sharply criticized Berlin and Chancellor Olaf Scholz personally for the insufficient amount of weapons provided.
He compared the then German chancellor to an “offended liverwurst”, using a sharp German phraseology for the head of the German government, which means an unfounded insult, although he later apologized for his words.
In addition, while working in Kyiv, Melnyk actively criticized his successor in Berlin, Alexei Makeev.
