Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s former interior minister and the original candidate for defense minister, has been offered the position of secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (RNBO) on Friday. Klymenko went without an official post on Thursday after popular uproar against former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov’s dismissal, with his original role of interior minister taken over by a new cabinet under newly sworn-in Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. In his Friday update, President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Klymenko for his work as interior minister and said the relevant decree is being prepared for Klymenko’s new role at the RNBO. “I met with Igor Klymenko. I am grateful for his work in the Ministry of Internal Affairs system. There were many difficult challenges, and the response was always effective,” Zelensky wrote. “Ihor Klymenko will continue to work for Ukraine in the field of protecting our state and people. I offered him the position of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine,” he added. Zelensky appointed Yevhen Khmara, the head of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), as acting defense minister following Thursday’s political crisis. Zelensky suggested that Klymenko’s work at the RNBO would be to coordinate decisions between the council and the military. “The main thing is the most effective coordination between all components in the security and defense sector and daily control over the implementation of decisions,” Zelensky continued.