Following a nomination by newly appointed Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi, the Verkhovna Rada approved the new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
A total of 264 members of parliament voted during Thursday's plenary session to dismiss the previous Cabinet and appoint members of the new government. The appointments were voted on as a package, with the exception of the defense minister and foreign minister, whose nominations are submitted by the president.
In particular, the following officials were reappointed to the updated Cabinet: First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal, Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture of Ukraine Tetiana Berezhna, Minister of Finance Serhii Marchenko, Minister of Health Viktor Liashko, Minister of Youth and Sports Matvii Bidnyi, and Minister of Social Policy, Family, and Unity Denys Uliutin.
At the same time, Vsevolod Chentsov, formerly Ukraine's representative to the European Union, was appointed Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine.
Andrii Butenko, head of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance, was appointed Minister of Education and Science.
The new Minister for Veterans Affairs is Vitalii Kim, head of the Mykolaiv Oblast Military Administration.
The newly reorganized Ministry of Economy and Environment will be headed by Oleksandr Kravchenko, head of McKinsey & Company's Ukrainian office, while the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food will be led by Taras Vysotskyi, the current Deputy Minister of Economy.
As a result, the Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture will be split into two separate ministries.
Meanwhile, MP Vitalii Bezgin (Servant of the People faction) will head the Ministry for Communities, Territories, and Internally Displaced Persons, while Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Oblast State Administration, will lead the Ministry of Recovery, Infrastructure, and Transport.
As a result, the position of Deputy Prime Minister for the Recovery of Ukraine and Minister for Communities and Territories Development has been abolished and replaced by two specialized ministerial posts.
In addition, Denys Maslov, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy (Servant of the People faction), was appointed Minister of Justice, while Oksana Ferchuk, Deputy Defense Minister for Digital Development, Digital Transformation, and Digitalization, was appointed Minister of Digital Transformation.
Ivan Vyhovskyi, head of the National Police, was also appointed the new Minister of Internal Affairs.
In addition, under the presidential quota, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha is expected to be reappointed, while a new defense minister is yet to be appointed. No nominations for either position have been submitted so far.
As a result, the following officials did not receive positions in the new government: Taras Kachka, Oleksii Kuleba, Oleksii Sobolev, Nataliia Kalmykova, Oksen Lisovyi, Mykhailo Fedorov, and Ihor Klymenko (who may be nominated for the post of defense minister).