The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has approved the candidates for ministers of the new Ukrainian government proposed by newly appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal. Some 277 MPs voted in favor of the new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers.
The new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is as follows:
Deputy Prime Minister and Digital Transformation Minister of Ukraine – Mykhailo Fedorov;
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine – Vadym Prystaiko;
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine – Oleksiy Reznikov;
Social Policy Minister of Ukraine – Maryna Lazebna;
Interior Minister of Ukraine – Arsen Avakov;
Youth and Sports Minister of Ukraine – Vadym Gutzeit;
Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine – Vladyslav Krykliy;
Minister for Veterans’ Affairs of Ukraine Serhiy Bessarab;
Justice Minister of Ukraine – Denys Maliuska;
Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine – Oleh Nemchinov;
Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine – Oleksiy Chernyshov;
Health Minister of Ukraine – Illia Yemets;
Finance Minister of Ukraine – Ihor Umansky.
In the previous government of Oleksiy Honcharuk, which resigned on Wednesday, Fedorov was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Digital Transformation, Avakov was Minister of Internal Affairs, Krykliy was Minister of Infrastructure, and Maliuska was Minister of Justice.
Culture Minister Volodymyr Borodiansky will be replaced, for now, by one of his deputies as Acting Culture Minister, a Servant of the People parliamentarian, Yevhenia Kravchuk, said on Facebook.
“The office of Minister of Education is still vacant, there will be Acting Minister of Education,” she said.
The previous Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, Dmytro Dubilet, will “remain in the team,” Kravchuk said.
