Anton Koltsov, a former government official of Russia’s Vologda region, has been appointed head of government of the occupied territories in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reports, citing Vladimir Rogov, a “member of the military-civil administration” of the occupied region.
According to Rogov, Koltsov graduated from the RANEPA Higher School of Public Administration. He previously worked in the metals sector, which is “very important to the Zaporizhzhia region”, the Russia-installed official says.
Koltsov was appointed first deputy head of Russia’s Vologda region in 2016.
Russia’s Federal Agency for Youth Affairs told RIA Novosti that Anton Titsky had been appointed minister of youth affairs of the Zaporizhzhia region.
In early June, the “military-civil administrations” of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions reported that they had started to issue Russian passports to residents of Ukraine’s Melitopol and Kherson.
