Ukrainian Railways to appoint new CEO

MOSCOW. Oct 8 (Interfax) - Yevgeny Lyashchenko has handed in his letter of resignation from the post of JSC Ukrainian Railways CEO, Ukrainian media said, citing the company's press service.

"The supervisory board of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia has received Lyashchenko's request for the early termination of his powers as the company's CEO," Ukrainian Railways said in a statement on its website.

The supervisory board will review Lyashchenko's letter of resignation within the next few days and will make all necessary decisions in line with the current procedures, it said.

According to Ukrainian media outlets' sources, the nomination committee will meet on Tuesday, October 8, and may appoint board member Alexander Pertsovsky, currently the director of the Passenger Company branch in charge of Ukrainian Railways' passenger department, as the company's new CEO.

Other candidates for the post are Vyacheslav Yeryomin, Ukrainian Railways' chief operations officer and a board member in charge of the company's freight vertical, and board member Roman Chernitsky, who previously headed Lvov Railways and is also the company's former director for infrastructure.

Lyashchenko will stay on the Ukrainian Railways board to oversee the company's finances, the sources said.

Pertsovsky joined Ukrainian Railways as an acting board member in October 2020. He was officially given a seat on the company's board a year later. Earlier in his career, Pertsovsky served as JSC Ukrposhta first deputy CEO in 2016-2020, and held senior positions in Deutsche Post DHL Group in the United States and Singapore from 2010 to 2016.