{"id":13959,"date":"2025-07-17T18:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13959"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:05:59","slug":"ukraine-names-new-prime-minister-amid-cabinet-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13959","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine names new prime minister amid cabinet shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ukraine\u2019s parliament appointed the country\u2019s first new prime minister in five years on Thursday, part of a major cabinet overhaul aimed at revitalising wartime management as prospects for peace with Russia grow dim.<\/p>\n

Yulia Svyrydenko, 39, has been tasked by President Volodymyr Zelensky with boosting domestic weapons production and reviving Ukraine\u2019s loan-dependent economy.<\/p>\n

In a speech to parliament, Zelensky said he expected his new government to increase the share of domestic weapons on Ukraine\u2019s battlefield to 50 per cent from 40pc within six months.<\/p>\n

He also singled out deregulation and expanding economic co-operation with allies as other key aims of the biggest government reshuffle since Russia\u2019s February 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n

Svyrydenko, an experienced technocrat who had served as first deputy prime minister since 2021, pledged to move \u201cswiftly and decisively\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWar leaves no room for delay,\u201d she wrote on X. \u201cOur priorities for the first six months are clear: reliable supply for the army, expansion of domestic weapons production, and boosting the technological strength of our defence forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Svyrydenko is also well known to the Trump administration, having negotiated a deal giving the US preferential access to Ukraine\u2019s mineral wealth. It was considered crucial to bolster relations between Kyiv and Washington.<\/p>\n

Addressing lawmakers on Thursday, Zelensky said further deals with the US would be forthcoming but did not offer any specific details.<\/p>\n

Parliament also appointed former prime minister Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine\u2019s longest-serving head of government, as defence minister and Svitlana Hrynchuk as energy minister.<\/p>\n

Former Svyrydenko deputies Oleksiy Sobolev and Taras Kachka will serve as minister of economy, environment and agriculture and deputy prime minister for European integration, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis team is time-tested,\u201d Shmyhal wrote on Thursday. \u201cAhead are new tasks, challenges and a high level of responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Challenges ahead<\/p>\n

Svyrydenko takes over the government as Russian forces press a grinding offensive across the sprawling, more than 1,000-kilometre front line and intensify air strikes on Ukrainian cities.<\/p>\n

Ukraine is betting on a budding defence industry, fuelled in part by foreign investment, to fend off Russia\u2019s bigger and better-armed war machine.<\/p>\n

With state revenues going to defence, Kyiv will also need to find money to finance its ballooning budget deficit as foreign aid diminishes. Officials have said they could face a shortfall of about $19 billion next year.<\/p>\n

Svyrydenko said her government would launch a full audit of public finances to achieve \u201creal savings\u201d, as well as accelerate large-scale privatisations and help entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n

Some opposition lawmakers voiced scepticism about the new government\u2019s ability to remain independent of Zelensky\u2019s administration, which wields significant wartime powers under Ukraine\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will be told by the president\u2019s office what they should really do,\u201d wrote Yaroslav Zheleznyak of the Holos party.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukraine\u2019s parliament appointed the country\u2019s first new prime minister in five years on Thursday, part of a major cabinet overhaul aimed at revitalising wartime management as prospects for peace with Russia grow dim. Yulia Svyrydenko, 39, has been tasked by President Volodymyr Zelensky with boosting domestic weapons production and reviving Ukraine\u2019s loan-dependent economy. In a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}