Inna Ohnivets

Inna Vasylivna Ohnivets (; born 30 August 1962) is a Ukrainian jurist and diplomat who became the ambassador to Slovakia from 2005 to 2010, and Portugal from 2015 to 2022.

Diplomatic career Slovakia Ohnivets served as Ukraine's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the Slovak Republic from 2006 to 2010.

Portugal Ohnivets has been in Lisbon since 30 September 2015 and was appointed by Petro Poroshenko.

Ohnivets made an urgent plea for cooperation in the fight to safeguard both people and the environment during her speech at the UN Conference in 2022 to support the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14. Regarding this, Ukraine was adamant about holding Russia accountable on a global scale for war crimes, damage of the marine environment, and illicit activity in the Black and Azov seas.

It is alleged that two pro-Russian workers at the refugee support centre improperly gathered and disseminated the private information of numerous immigrants. According to Ohnivets, the recorded personal data would be "of interest to Russian intelligence". During the interview, she reaffirmed the government's demand for a no-fly zone over Ukraine and condemned Russia for violating security protocols in the humanitarian corridors, specifically in Mariupol. She bemoaned the "scary state of affairs" in the city.

Dismissal On 24 June 2022, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, had dismissed five ambassadors, including Inna Ohnivets, the country's Ukrainian envoy, caused a stir in Portugal. She attempted to downplay any animosity in an interview with SIC, stating that this was a necessary and, in many ways, long overdue "planned rotation" of ambassadors (ambassadors typically serve three-year terms). Nevertheless, it seems that she was only informed that it was time to go two days prior to the public release of the presidential decree.