OREANDA-NEWS For the first time, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting with the new Prime Minister of the republic, Sergei Koretsky. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel.

"The first meeting of the new government has already taken place, and today we discussed the steps that will be taken in the near future and work with Ukraine's partners to fulfill our agreements," Zelensky wrote.

According to him, Koretsky has begun preparing a government program that will be presented to the Verkhovna Rada. In addition, the meeting, as indicated by the Ukrainian leader, touched upon the appointment of acting Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense of the republic.

Earlier, Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Republic Alexey Goncharenko (included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring) wanted to give Zelensky the constitution, because he, without authority, appointed the acting Minister of Defense.