Incoming Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko says she is going to concentrate on weapons manufacturing and the economic system in her new position.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed a brand new prime minister and different key leaders within the largest authorities reshuffle since Russia invaded three years in the past.
Yulia Svyrydenko, 39, took over as prime minister from Denys Shmyhal, who had held the submit since 2020, following her affirmation on Thursday by Ukraine’s parliament.
Svyrydenko beforehand served as first deputy prime minister and minister of financial improvement and commerce, roles that introduced her in shut contact with the administration of United States President Donald Trump. She was credited with negotiating a crucial mineral deal between Washington and Kyiv earlier this 12 months that helped thaw an initially frosty relationship between Trump and Zelenskyy.
Svyrydenko stated on social media that she intends to concentrate on increasing Ukraine’s home weapons manufacturing and the power of its armed forces, and supporting the economic system.
“Our Authorities units its course towards a Ukraine that stands agency by itself foundations — navy, financial, and social,” she stated. “My key purpose is actual, constructive outcomes that each Ukrainian will really feel in day by day life. Conflict leaves no room for delay. We should act swiftly and decisively,” she stated.
It’s a nice honor for me to steer the Authorities of Ukraine immediately.
Our Authorities units its course towards a Ukraine that stands agency by itself foundations — navy, financial, and social. My key purpose is actual, constructive outcomes that each Ukrainian will really feel in day by day life.
Conflict… pic.twitter.com/oytWMCp1S3
— Yulia Svyrydenko (@Svyrydenko_Y) July 17, 2025
Outgoing Prime Minister Shmyhal, 49, will step in as defence minister, taking up a ministry that has struggled with a collection of corruption scandals.
Overseas Minister Andrii Sybiha, 50, will keep in place, however Zelenskyy has named outgoing Justice Minister Olga Stefanishyna, 39, as his subsequent ambassador to the US, pending US approval. Stefanishyna has expertise working with the European Union and NATO and in addition performed a task in negotiating the latest mineral take care of the Trump administration.
Stefanishyna will substitute outgoing envoy Oksana Markarova, who earned the ire of Trump attributable to her constructive working relationship with the administration of former US President Joe Biden.
Experiences final week indicated that Zelenskyy was planning to decide on Defence Minister Rustem Umerov as his subsequent US envoy, however he was allegedly not accredited by Washington, in line with opposition MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
Different reshuffles will see deputies Oleksiy Sobolev and Taras Kachka take over because the minister of economic system, surroundings and agriculture and deputy prime minister for European integration.
Regardless of the shake-up in positions, critics say the brand new faces in Zelenskyy’s cupboard stay largely the identical. They’ve additionally accused the Ukrainian chief of consolidating energy by stacking key authorities posts along with his “loyalists”.
