The top Ukrainian official overseeing wartime reconstruction and defence fortifications has resigned, claiming his agency was being systematically undermined by the government. Mustafa Nayyem\u2019s departure is the latest in a series of personnel changes in Kyiv that have shaken the confidence of western partners in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s government and irked some of Ukraine\u2019s own officials.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy is expected to attend the conference while in Berlin to deliver a speech to the German parliament. But experts said the absence of the top bureaucrat in charge of Ukraine\u2019s reconstruction was unlikely to sit well with foreign partners at an event focused on rebuilding the country.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIt sends our partners a message that recovery is not a priority any more,\u201d said Hlib Vyshlinsky, the executive director at the Kyiv-based Centre for Economic Strategy.\u00a0\u201cThis situation is really bad for perception of the Ukrainian government and Ukraine generally. Ukraine is and has to be perceived as unbroken,\u201d Vyshlinsky said. The sacking of Kubrakov and Nayyem\u2019s departure \u201cbuild an image of weak and unpredictable governance that is unjust to efforts of Ukrainians during these years\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n