Zelenskyy Tape Svyrydenko to lead the Ukrainian government in the middle of the war with Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reshapes the government while his country’s war with Russia rages more than three years after its beginning.

The first Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Minister Yulia Svyrydenko was exploited to lead the next government as Prime Minister. Meanwhile, the current Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal is expected to be the country’s next defense minister.

President of the Swiss Confederation Alto Amherd with Beat Jans, Swiss Minister of Justice and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy with Yulia Svyrydenko, the first Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and their respective delegations, held bilateral speeches on January 15, 2024 in Kehrsatz Near Bern. (Keystone / Alessandro della Valle / Pool via Reuters)

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Zelenskyy appointed Svyrydenko as his choice for the Prime Minister in an article on X saying that the two met to discuss the country’s objectives.

“We have also discussed concrete measures to stimulate Ukraine’s economic potential, extend the support programs to the Ukrainians and increase our production of national weapons. In the pursuit of this objective, we begin a transformation of the executive branch in Ukraine. I proposed that Yuliia Svyryden led the government of Ukraine and considerably renewed its work. action of the new government in “Zelenskyy wrote on Monday.

Svyrydenko thanked Zelenskyy in his own article on X, and presented the “priority tasks” defined by the president, in particular the strengthening of the economy, the increase in the production of domestic weapons and the enlargement of government support programs.

“These tasks can be obtained through tangible deregulation, the elimination of bureaucratic obstacles, the reduction of non -critical expenditure and the duplication of functions within public institutions, the protection of entrepreneurship, and the full concentration of public resources for the defense of Ukraine and recovery after hostilities,” SvyryDenko wrote.

Yulia SVYRYDENKO, Ukrainian Minister for Economic Development and Trade, attended a press conference on the day of the Reunion of EU Trade Ministers in Stockholm on March 10, 2023. (Caisa Rasmussen / TT News Agency / Via Reuters)

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In Ukraine, the president appoints the Prime Minister of the country, but the appointment must be approved by the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of the country, to become official.

On Tuesday, Zelenskyy said that he had organized a meeting with Svyryrydenko and the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister of Innovations, Development of Education, Sciences and Technologies Mykhailo Fedorov to discuss “key priorities” for the next government. These include what he presented for Svyrydenko as well as the “entirely contraction of the volumes required for all types of drones” that the Ukranian forces need.

Soldiers from the 30th Prince Konstanty Ostrogski Mechanized Brigade draw a missile from a Multiple BM-21 Multiple Roquettes launcher in the positions of Russian troops in the direction of Donetsk, Ukraine, June 3, 2025. (Ukrinform / Nurphoto via Getty Images)

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Outgoing Prime Minister Shmyhal, who has held this role since 2020, should replace the current Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Rustem Umerov, whom Zelenskyy would have suggested will become the next country ambassador to the United States, According to Reuters.

Zelenskyy congratulated Shmyhal – the oldest head of government in the country since he won independence in 1991 – for his “vast experience”, according to reports.