Ukrainian parliament appoints new government

The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) has appointed a new Cabinet of Ministers (Ukrainian government), led by Serhii Koretskyi. 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, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy
• Tetiana Berezhna, the Deputy Prime minister for humanitarian policy and minister of culture
• Vsevolod Chentsov, the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
• Vitalii Bezhin, the Minister for Communities, Territories and Internally Displaced Persons
• Matvii Bidnyi, the Minister of Youth and Sports
• Andrii Butenko, the Minister of Education and Science
• Ivan Vyhivskyi, the Interior Minister
• Taras Vysotskyi, the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food
• Mykola Kalashnyk, the Minister for Recovery, Infrastructure and Transport
• Vitalii Kim, the Minister for Veterans Affairs
• Oleksandr Kravchenko, the Minister of Economy and Environment
• Viktor Liashko, the Minister of Health
• Serhii Marchenko, the Minister of Finance
• Denys Maslov, the Minister of Justice
• Denys Uliutin, the Minister of Social Policy, Family and Unity
• Oksana Ferchuk, the 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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