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Dmytro Ivanovich Kuleba

Dmytro Ivanovich Kuleba has served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine since March 04, 2020. He was not involved in any scandals. Kuleba has said that if for some reason he leaves the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, he will go to work in a restaurant as a half-time cook's assistant. After being appointed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kuleba announced five main priorities for work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine . In addition to the main tasks of resolving the conflict with Russia, he will try to make Ukraine more attractive to the whole world. The youngest ever head of the foreign policy department of Ukraine, he had the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Dmytro Kuleba was born in 1981 in Sumy, Ukraine. Father - Kuleba Ivan Dmytrovych, Ukrainian diplomat. In the period from 1997 to 2000, he worked as the ambassador of Ukraine to Egypt. There is no publicly available information about Dmytro Kuleba's mother, Yevgenia Volodymyrivna Kuleba. He himself does not like to talk about this topic for some reason.

In 2003, Dmytro Kuleba graduated with honour from Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko University (Kyiv,Ukraine), where he studied international law. In 2006 Mr.Kuleba obtained Ph.D. in Law.

From 2003 to 2010 he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the OSCE. He also worked at the office of Ukraine’s Foreign Minister from 2010 to 2013 in charge of the issues related to the image of Ukraine abroad, international organizations, relations with the United States.

During January-June 2013, Kuleba served as advisor to Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs. After quitting civil service in 2013, Dmytro Kuleba chaired the Board of the UART Foundation for Cultural Diplomacy. In November 2013 — February 2014, he took an active part in the Revolution of Dignity. In 2014 Dmytro Kuleba returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Ambassador-at-Large to launch strategic communications. He introduced the concepts of digital diplomacy, strategic communications, cultural diplomacy and public diplomacy into the Ministry’s work.

In 2016 Mr. Kuleba was appointed as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe. From August 2019 to March 2020 he was Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine.

Dmytro Kuleba is author of a book "The War for Reality. How to Win in the World of Fakes, Truths and Communities". His wife is Kuleba Yevgenia Anatolyivna, the founder and head of the public organization "Garden City". Her most famous projects are Nebesnaya Sotna Square on Mykhailivska Street in Kyiv and Shovkovychny Park in Slov'yansk. Among the foreign partners of Evgenia Kuleba's NGO are USAID, Goethe Institut, British Council, International Renaissance Foundation. They has two children, son Yehor (born in 2006) and daughter Lyubov (born in 2011). He is Fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, English and French.

In the fall of 2020, the President of Belarus, Oleksandr Lukashenko, made a statement that he had learned from the special services about the conversation between Dmytro Kuleba and the head of the German Foreign Ministry. In this conversation, Kuleba allegedly called on the EU to introduce serious sanctions against Belarus. Kuleba himself commented on the situation on his Twitter, wrote that there was nothing like that in their conversation and that he, on the contrary, is against "suffocating" Belarus.

As reported by the Komentari website, in February 2021, Kremlin Speaker Dmytro Peskov stated that they have always considered Ukraine a part of the "Russian world" and said that they will continue to pursue the same policy towards our country. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, spoke sharply about this, saying that it was not possible to advance the idea of "Russian peace" in Ukraine with the help of tanks, so it will not be possible to do it with soft power either. The minister said that "Russian peace" implies one-sidedness, where there is no one but Russians.

Kuleba is known for his principled position on Russian armed aggression against Ukraine. He consistently insists on maintaining EU and US sanctions pressure until Russia returns Crimea and withdraws its troops from Donbas. Advocates a diplomatic way to resolve the conflict, but excludes direct negotiations between the leadership of Ukraine and the terrorists of the "LDNR". In his opinion, in order to resolve the conflict in Donbas, Russia should transfer control over the border to Ukraine, withdraw its troops, and only after that it will be possible to hold elections.

Kuleba believes that Ukraine needs to correctly approach the possibility of introducing dual citizenship, because during independence, millions of Ukrainians went abroad, became citizens of other countries, but still help Ukraine and want to remain a part of their Motherland. At the same time, he notes that dual citizenship is unacceptable for civil servants and government officials, especially if it concerns the citizenship of the aggressor country — Russia. Kuleba said " I'm in favor of the version from my favorite Tarantino movie "Inglourious Basterds", where Lt. Aldo Rein tells his soldiers about the enemies: "They'll get sick of us, they'll talk about us, they'll be afraid of us!" These are our people."