Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Ihor Klymenko, a career law-enforcement official, to lead the National Cybersecurity Coordination Center — the body that sits under Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council and brings together the government agencies responsible for cybersecurity. The NCCC was created in 2016 and monitors cyberthreats facing Ukraine, coordinates the work of the responsible agencies and oversees delivery of the national cybersecurity strategy; it was previously headed by Rustem Umerov, a former NSDC secretary. Klymenko does not appear to have a technical cybersecurity background, which is the point of interest: he headed Ukraine's National Police from 2019 — an organisation that includes the country's cyber police department — became interior minister in 2023 with responsibility for several law-enforcement and emergency agencies, and was appointed head of the NSDC in August 2026. Zelensky has said Klymenko's experience would be useful in coordinating Ukraine's defence and security agencies against threats including Russian cyber operations and criminal networks. The appointment is part of a broader reshuffle of Ukraine's security leadership: in July, intelligence and counterterrorism official Yevhenii Khmara became acting defence minister, and his first deputy, Oleksandr Poklad, became acting head of the Security Service of Ukraine. Separately, parliament approved the dismissal of Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko over allegations that officials in his office accepted bribes to protect scam call centres from law enforcement — a corruption finding that matters to the cyber picture, because it describes criminal infrastructure being sheltered inside the prosecutorial service. Read together, the reshuffle places a police-intelligence generalist over a coordination body at the moment Ukraine is consolidating both its cyber-defence apparatus and its domestic cybercrime enforcement.

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