Ukraine Reshuffles Government
The Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) has approved the appointment of 13 new ministers to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
The Gaze reports on this, referring to the broadcast of the parliamentary session, which was hosted on YouTube by MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
The Rada approved these appointments with 253 votes in favour.
Mykhailo Fedorov became First Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation.
Oleksiy Kuleba is Deputy Prime Minister for Recovery and Minister of Community and Territorial Development.
Taras Kachka is Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration.
Matvii Bidnyi is Minister of Youth and Sports.
Herman Halushchenko is Minister of Justice.
Svitlana Grynychuk is Minister of Energy.
Natalia Kalmykova is Minister for Veterans Affairs.
Ihor Klymenko is Minister of Internal Affairs.
Oksen Lisovyi – Minister of Education and Science.
Viktor Lyashko – Minister of Health.
Serhiy Marchenko – Minister of Finance.
Oleksiy Sobolev – Minister of Economy, Ecology and Agriculture.
Denys Ulyutin – Minister of Social Policy, Family and Unity.
According to European Pravda, the new Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Taras Kachka, has extensive experience in European integration, having led negotiations on the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement, but focused primarily on trade issues.
As The Gaze reported earlier, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has officially appointed Yuliia Svyrydenko as the country’s new Prime Minister.