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Chief of Zaporizhia Regional State Administration Valeriy Baranov has announced that he has filed his voluntary resignation in a letter to President Petro Poroshenko.

He posted a copy of his letter on Facebook on Oct. 27.

Baranov was appointed head of Zaporizhia Regional State Administration in early March by the then acting president, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov.