Ukrainian parliament appoints new government except defence and foreign ministers

The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) has appointed a new Cabinet of Ministers (Ukrainian government), led by Serhii Koretskyi. The parliament is expected to appoint the foreign and defence ministers separately at a later date.

Source: live broadcast from the Verkhovna Rada session

Details: MPs approved the ministerial appointments by 264 votes.

Koretskyi presented their candidacies beforehand.

• Denys Shmyhal, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy
• Tetiana Berezhna, Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture
• Vsevolod Chentsov, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
• Vitalii Bezhin, Minister for Communities, Territories and Internally Displaced Persons
• Matvii Bidnyi, Minister of Youth and Sports
• Andrii Butenko, Minister of Education and Science
• Ivan Vyhivskyi, Interior Minister
• Taras Vysotskyi, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food
• Mykola Kalashnyk, Minister for Recovery, Infrastructure and Transport
• Vitalii Kim, Minister for Veterans Affairs
• Oleksandr Kravchenko, Minister of Economy and Environment
• Viktor Liashko, Minister of Health
• Serhii Marchenko, Minister of Finance
• Denys Maslov, Minister of Justice
• Denys Uliutin, Minister of Social Policy, Family and Unity
• Oksana Ferchuk, Minister of Digital Transformation

MPs will consider the foreign and defence minister posts separately after the president submits the relevant nominations.

Background:

• On 16 July, the Verkhovna Rada approved the appointment of Serhii Koretskyi as prime minister. Koretskyi previously served as CEO of Naftogaz of Ukraine, the country's largest oil and gas company, and Ukrnafta, Ukraine's largest oil producer.
• The dismissal of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has sparked protests near the President's Office in Kyiv.

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