Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, will leave Berlin on October 14 after almost eight years in office.

"I have to be in Kyiv on October 15 to take up a new post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, probably," Bild quotes Melnyk.

According to Bild, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has already offered Melnyk a post of one of his several deputies. The government still has to confirm that.

On July 9, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recalled Andrii Melnyk from his post of Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany. Melnyk has been the head of Ukraine's diplomatic representation in Germany for eight years, while ambassadors usually rotate after four, at most, six years.

Later, the German mass media reported that Oleksiy Makeiev might be appointed as the new ambassador of Ukraine.

Melnyk offered Chancellor Scholz a personal apology for "insulted liverwurst."