Kazakhstan refused to issue an agrement (consent to accepting a person as head of a diplomatic mission) to the former head of the Lugansk regional military administration, Sergei Gaidai, whose candidacy was requested by official Kyiv, sources told ZN. U.A..

According to our interlocutors, the Kazakh side “softly but firmly” made it clear that it would like to see a professional diplomat in the place of the Ambassador of Ukraine to Kazakhstan.

Recall that the previous Ukrainian ambassador to Kazakhstan, Petr Vrublevsky, was a professional diplomat. However, President Volodymyr Zelensky was forced to dismiss him from office in October 2022 after Astana's displeasure and Moscow's hysteria demanding that Kazakhstan immediately expel the Ukrainian diplomat from the country..

Such a reaction was caused by an interview of the Ukrainian ambassador to a local blogger, in which he stated the following about the Russians: “We are trying to kill more of them. The more Russians we kill now, the less our children will have to kill.”.

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Sergei Gaidai has been the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration since October 25, 2019. On March 15, 2023, he was dismissed from his post by presidential decree.. He has no diplomatic experience..