Ukraine Government Reshuffle: the President’s Faction Discusses New Ministerial Candidates

At the “Servant of the People” President’s fraction in the Parliament meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a full list of planned government reshuffles was presented to those present:

▪️ Iryna Vereshchuk will move to the Presidential Office to work on social policy. The Ministry for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories will be dissolved as a separate entity, and its functions will be transferred to the Ministry for Communities and Territorial Development of Ukraine.

▪️ Olha Stefanishyna will be appointed Vice Prime Minister for European Integration – Minister of Justice.

▪️ Oleksandr Kamyshin will transition to the position of presidential advisor on strategic industries, with his place in the government to be taken by Herman Smetanin, the current head of “Ukroboronprom.”

▪️ Andriy Sybiha, the current first deputy minister, will replace Dmytro Kuleba as the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

▪️ The current Deputy Minister of Energy, Svitlana Hrynchuk, will replace Ruslan Strilets as Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources.

▪️ Matviy Bidnyy will be appointed Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine.

▪️ Vitaliy Koval, the current head of the State Property Fund, will take over as Minister of Agricultural Policy.

▪️ Mykola Tochytskyi will become Minister of Culture and Information Policy.

▪️ Natalia Kalmykova, the current Deputy Minister of Defense, will be appointed Minister of Veterans Affairs.

▪️ Oleksiy Kuleba will be appointed Minister of Communities, Territories, and Infrastructure Development. The ministry is expected to be split in the near future.

EMPR