Mykola Tochytskyi

Mykola Stanislavovych Tochytskyi (; born 22 September 1967) is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician who was the Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications from 5 September 2024 to 16 July 2025.

He served as the deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2024, the Ambassador to Belgium from 2016 to 2021, as well as a Representative of Ukraine to the European Union, and concurrently as the Ambassador to Luxembourg throughout that same term.

Tochytskyi also was the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe from 2010 to 2016, and formerly the Consul General of Ukraine in San Francisco from 2005 to 2008.

Biography

Mykola Tochytskyi was born in Vinnytsia on 22 September 1967.

He graduated from Uladiv High School in Uladivske.

From 1985 to 1987, he served in the Soviet Army.

In 1993, he graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, as a translator of French and English. For the first time in the recent history of Ukraine, he chaired the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, and participated in the signing of the European Convention on Protection.

Tochytskyi's diplomatic career has a special place in his diplomatic career, which he conducts together with his wife, Tamara Tochytska.

During this period, exhibitions of Ukrainian artists, Yuriy Nahulko, Viktor Sevastyanov, and Zoy Skoropadenko took place in Strasbourg.

Throughout the years, the Council of Europe hosted weeks of Ukrainian regions: the Vinnytsia Oblast in 2011, the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in 2012, and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in 2013

On 4 February 2016, Tochytskyi left as the Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, as he was appointed as the ambassador to Belgium.

As an Ambassador As an ambassador, along with Tamara, he created a large-scale projects of cultural diplomacy and contributed to the annual treatment and rehabilitation of Ukrainian servicemen wounded during the environmental protection at Queen Astrid Military Hospital in Belgium.

On the same day, he became the Representative of Ukraine to the EU and the European Atomic Energy Community part-time, and a part-time ambassador to Luxembourg. As an ambassador in that field, he facilitated the entry into force of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, the Visa-Free Regime, Ukraine's accession to the European Green Course, preparations for the signing of the Common Aviation Area Agreement, and participated in Ukraine-EU-Russia trilateral gas negotiations on gas transit.

As an ambassador to Luxembourg, he participated in the conclusion of the Protocol amending the Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation.

During Tochytskyi's term as Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Ukraine's cultural presence in almost all spheres of art has significantly increased, as painting, music, theater, cinema, and literature covered all regions of the country and the largest cities - Brussels, Luxembourg City, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, Arlon, Liege, Genk and others.

Some significant events of this period are the annual festival "Ukrainian Spring", the Belgian film festival "Bridges East-West", the Luxembourg film festival "CinEast", the participation of the Ukrainian team in the annual festival "EatBrussels"., with the exhibitions of Ukrainian artists Ivan Marchuk, Mykola Telizhenko, Roman Minin, Mykita Kadan, Alevtina Kakhidze, Eduard Belsky, Oleksandr Kudryavchenko, Bohdan Holoyad, Serhiy Sviatchenko, Ihor Musin, Oksana Levchen, Svitlana Lebiga Nadii Senychak and others.

On 5 September 2024, he became the Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications. On 16 July 2025, he was dismissed as the Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications.