Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has rejected the appointment of Yuriy Solonchuk, head of state-run enterprise Ukraine, to the post of director general of Boryspil International Airport (Kyiv) selected at a tender.

The decision was made at a meeting on Wednesday.

First Deputy Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv said that despite the fact that Solonchuk won the tender, independent members of the tender panel opposed his appointment.

He said that the rejection of the candidate opens a way for holding a repeat tender to select the head of the airport.

The tender panel of the Cabinet of Ministers in November 2015 selected Solonchuk for the post of director general of Boryspil International Airport, but he has not yet been appointed to the post. Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said that the tender could be held again.

Today acting head of Boryspil International Airport is Yevhen Dykhne appointed to the post on September 19, 2014. He took part in the tender to select the new head of the airport, but he was not selected to the final stage of the tender and tried to challenge the results of the tender in court.

In June 2016, the independent trade union of aviation safety workers asked Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman to suspend Dykhne from the post. The trade union said that recently the airport head and his deputies were doing their best to destroy the production potential of the airport. The trade union said that the policy aimed at making airport's clients in ground servicing to go to the rival companies is being conducted.