Two Russian top officials resigned in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region. The “governor” is taking also the “governmental” position

The positions of the “governor” and “head of regional government” will be merged in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region, the “governor” Yevhen Balytskyi wrote in Telegram.

On 15 January, it became known that the “head of government” Irina Gekht, who had worked as deputy governor of the Russian Chelyabinsk region before being appointed to the occupation administration, had resigned.

It was Balytskyi who announced the Gekht’s resignation. She spoke out only the next day, saying that she was on leave, after which she would move to another job.

Gekht had only been in the Zaporizhzhia region for about eight months. The pro-Kremlin Russian media outlet Kommersant reminded that her predecessor, Russian Anton Koltsov, also resigned from his post, claiming to be moving to another job, but remains unemployed.

According to Kommersant, Gekht indeed decided to resign herself, but not because of a more interesting offer, but, like her predecessor, because of tensions with Balytskyi, who had been trying to get the position of head of the “government” of the region in addition to the “governor’s” post.

The decision to resign on 15 January also announced the “mayor” of occupied Enerhodar, Russian Eduard Senovoz, former CEO of the company owned by Rosatom. Senovoz explained his resignation by “new tasks set before me by Rosatom”.