KYIV. May 14 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Cabinet of ministers has dismissed Zoryan Shkiryak as acting chief of the State Emergency Situations Service and appointed his former deputy Mykola Chechotkin in his stead, Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko told journalists on Thursday when asked about reshuffles in the Emergency Situations Service.
Shkiryak, who has been accused of poor organization of the evacuation of Ukrainian citizens from the earthquake-stricken Nepal, tendered his resignation on May 13.
Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said later that Shkiryak could return to the Interior Ministry and do the job he had done before his appointment to the State Emergency Situations Service.
Chechotkin has served as deputy head of the State Emergency Situations Service since the end of March. He was born in Ivano-Frankivsk in 1965. Since 2002, he has worked in different divisions and departments of the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry. Since 2006, he has occupied leading positions at the Emergency Situations Ministry's and the State Emergency Situations Service's central office. In July 2014, Chechotkin was appointed director of the State Emergency Situations Service civil defense organization department.