The Verkhovna Rada, upon the recommendation of newly appointed Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky, approved the new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
During Thursday’s parliamentary session, 264 members of parliament voted in favor of this decision.
The votes in support of the new Cabinet were distributed as follows: the “Servant of the People” faction – 193, “European Solidarity” – 0, “Batkivshchyna” – 1, “Holos” – 2, the ‘Dovira’ deputy group – 17, “For the Future” – 14, “Platform for Life and Peace” – 16, “Reconstruction of Ukraine”—14, and non-affiliated deputies—7.
At Thursday’s plenary session, which was held as a package vote (with the exception of the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose nominations are submitted by the president), 264 members of parliament voted in favor of the resignation of the previous Cabinet and the appointment of the new government.
Specifically, the following were reappointed to the new Cabinet: First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal; Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture of Ukraine Tetyana Berezhna; Minister of Finance Serhiy Marchenko; Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko, Minister of Youth and Sports Matvey Bidny, and Minister of
Social Policy, Family, and Unity Denis Ulyutin.
At the same time, Vsevolod Chentsov, who previously served as Ukraine’s representative to the European Union, was appointed Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine.
Andriy Butenko, head of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (NAOKVO), has been appointed Minister of Education and Science.
Vitaliy Kim, head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, has become the new Minister for Veterans’ Affairs.
Additionally, Oleksandr Kravchenko, head of the Ukrainian office of McKinsey & Company, has been appointed to lead the restructured Ministry of Economy and Environment, while Taras Vysotsky, the current Deputy Minister of Economy, has been appointed to lead the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food.
Thus, the Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture will be divided into two separate agencies.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Communities, Territories, and Internally Displaced Persons is now headed by MP Vitaliy Bezgin (Servant of the People faction), and the Ministry of Recovery, Infrastructure, and Transport is headed by Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration.
Consequently, the position of Deputy Prime Minister for the Reconstruction of Ukraine—Minister of Community and Territorial Development—no longer exists in the government and has been replaced by two specialized ministers.
In addition, Denys Maslov (Servant of the People faction), head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy, has been appointed Minister of Justice, while Oksana Ferchuk, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Defense for Digital Development, Digital Transformation, and Digitalization, has been appointed Minister of Digital Transformation.
Ivan Vygivsky, head of the National Police, has also been appointed as the new Minister of Internal Affairs.
Furthermore, under the president’s quota, Andriy Sibiga is to be reappointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and a Minister of Defense is to be appointed; no candidates have been proposed for these positions yet.
Thus, the following individuals did not receive positions in the new government: Taras Kachka, Oleksiy Kuleba, Oleksiy Sobolev, Natalya Kalmykova, Oksen Lisovyi, Mykhailo Fedorov, and Ihor Klymenko (who may be nominated for the position of Minister of Defense).
As reported, on July 16, the Verkhovna Rada appointed Serhiy Koretsky, chairman of the board of Naftogaz of Ukraine, as Prime Minister of Ukraine.
