Former Deputy PM Kubrakov becomes Zelenskyy advisor

Former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov has been appointed a non-staff adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to Presidential Decree No. 66/2026 dated January 20.

Kubrakov, who headed the Ministry of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development from 2021 to 2024 and previously led Ukravtodor, will advise the president on infrastructure and community relations.

He held his last ministerial post from December 2022 to May 2024. Earlier, in 2021–2022, Kubrakov served as Minister of Infrastructure before the ministry was merged with the Ministry of Regional Development. Prior to that, from 2019 to 2021, he headed Ukravtodor, now known as the State Agency for Infrastructure Recovery and Development.

On May 9, 2024, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Kubrakov from his ministerial post. He later said that his dismissal had not been discussed with him in advance and that he had not been warned about it.

In 2024, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak of the Holos party told LIGA.net that Kubrakov and Mustafa Nayyem — former head of the State Agency for Restoration, who resigned in June that year — had been under pressure from the Office of the President and the Cabinet of Ministers.

According to Kubrakov, his dismissal from the government was the result of an internal conflict within the Cabinet that began to unfold in mid-2023.