Overview
- Ukraine’s parliament announced the death of People’s Deputy Stepan Kubiv in a Facebook post and expressed condolences from the chamber’s leadership.
- European Solidarity, the party he represented, called his death a great loss and hailed him as a true comrade in the fight for the state, national memory, and a European future.
- Kubiv led the National Bank of Ukraine in 2014, then served from 2016 to 2019 as first vice prime minister and minister of economic development and trade.
- In the current ninth convocation, he sat on the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development, following two earlier terms as a people’s deputy.
- Officials did not disclose a cause of death or next steps, and Ukrinform noted a recent loss in January when deputy Oleksandr Kabanov died after a serious illness.