Ukrainian parliament accepts culture minister's resignation - lawmaker

FILE PHOTO: Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko, who has resigned, attends the press visit of the exhibition "Icons of the Khanenko museum in Kyiv", from the collections of the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum in Kyiv that were evacuated in the utmost secrecy to be safeguarded by the Paris Museum to protect them from the war, at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, June 13, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament voted on Thursday to accept the resignation of Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko, a lawmaker said, a week after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked for his dismissal.

Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a member of parliament, said on the Telegram messaging app that the chamber had voted overwhelmingly to accept Tkachenko's resignation and published a photograph showing the outcome of the vote.