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according to cctv news, on september 4 local time, the ukrainian verkhovna rada voted to approve the resignations submitted by several ukrainian officials, including deputy prime minister teresina, minister of strategic industries, minister of justice, and minister of environment.

the most eye-catching news is that ukrainian foreign minister kuleba also submitted his resignation to the ukrainian verkhovna rada, which was unexpected by the outside world. agence france-presse called this a surprising news, and polish deputy prime minister and defense minister kamysz also expressed surprise. there is very little information about why the ukrainian foreign minister suddenly resigned, and there are only rumors that zelensky is very dissatisfied with ukraine's diplomatic work recently.

after all, ukraine's diplomatic work has recently had two disasters.

first, on august 28, local time, ukrainian foreign minister kuleba visited a school in olsztyn, poland, and met with young people together with polish foreign minister sikorski. an audience member at the scene mentioned the issue of excavating the remains of the volyn massacre. that is, between 1943 and 1945, ukrainian nationalist militants massacred poles in the volyn region of northwestern ukraine, killing about 100,000 people.

in response, kuleba retaliated by citing operation vistula, a 1947 operation in which poland forcibly relocated ukrainians from southeastern poland to the north and west of the country in order to combat ukrainian nationalist militants. the operation relocated about 140,000 people. kuleba said that we should not dig up "the bad things that poles did to ukrainians and the bad things that ukrainians did to poles."

this statement obviously made poland very dissatisfied and even angry. polish prime minister tusk later said that he had an "absolutely negative evaluation" of kuleba's speech and threatened ukraine's eu membership, saying that "if ukraine cannot resolve the historical issues left over between ukraine and poland, it will be difficult to meet the standards for becoming an eu member state." it should be noted that ukraine's application for eu membership negotiations only started on june 25 this year.

even kuleba's statement that "the vistula operation took place on ukrainian territory" was criticized by some polish politicians and media as "implied territorial claims." although the ukrainian ministry of foreign affairs tried its best to defend it afterwards, it still directly led to a stalemate in relations with poland.

you know, ukraine is seeking nato support to deploy air defense systems in poland and romania to establish a "no-fly zone" over western ukraine against russia. after kuleba made this move, the polish ministry of defense decisively rejected ukraine's proposal at the eu defense ministers' meeting. polish deputy defense minister zalewski said that poland would not shoot down russian missiles or drones, nor would it train soldiers on ukrainian territory.

as we all know, poland has always been the most active in helping ukraine in the russia-ukraine conflict. now the poles just want ukraine to apologize for historical issues and find some balance and superiority. as a result, the ukrainian foreign minister is as stubborn as a dead duck, neither playing tai chi nor saying nice things. now ukraine needs poland, so is it difficult to say something that the other party is happy to hear?

in comparison, another operation by the ukrainian ministry of foreign affairs in the past two days is even more incredible and simply fatal.

september 3rd is the 79th anniversary of the victory of the chinese people's war of resistance against japanese aggression and the world anti-fascist war. however, the ukrainian embassy in japan posted on social media that day that ukrainian ambassador to japan kosensky visited the yasukuni shrine. the ukrainian embassy in japan falsely claimed that he "paid respect to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country."

on the anti-fascist day, they paid tribute to the fascists, and on the victory day of the anti-japanese war, they paid tribute to the japanese invaders. while being the country's ambassador to japan, they did not even put on a "personal identity" vest, and solemnly wrote down their gratitude - ukraine's actions can be said to be "full of sincerity", and even gods cannot save it.

although ukraine quickly deleted the post, the uproar could not be contained. south korea reacted strongly, scolding on social media, "how dare you mourn war criminals?" "stop aiding ukraine"... after all, south korea really provided artillery shells to ukraine.

my country's ministry of foreign affairs has repeatedly stressed that the yasukuni shrine is a spiritual tool and symbol of japanese militarism's war of aggression, and enshrines class a war criminals of world war ii. therefore, kosensky's "worship of ghosts" seriously hurt the feelings of the people who suffered in world war ii, seriously trampled on social fairness and justice, and seriously violated internationally recognized historical facts and basic norms of international relations, causing strong indignation and condemnation from the international community.

you can't say that ukraine doesn't even have this basic common sense when doing diplomacy! after all, one of the reasons russia launched the "special military operation" was "anti-nazi", and the outside world was still skeptical. now ukraine has directly proved itself, which can be regarded as the stupidest move since the russian-ukrainian conflict.

therefore, when the country is still in a turbulent period, the ukrainian government suddenly has large-scale personnel changes. the exact situation is unknown, but judging from the mess caused by the ukrainian ministry of foreign affairs, it is necessary to deal with it seriously in order to minimize the negative impact.