{"id":1264462,"date":"2025-07-17T16:26:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/shmyhal-officially-became-the-minister-of-defense\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T16:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:26:20","slug":"shmyhal-officially-became-the-minister-of-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/shmyhal-officially-became-the-minister-of-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Shmyhal officially became the Minister of Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has appointed Denis Shmyhal as the new Minister of Defense. 267 people&#8217;s deputies voted for this decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was reported by the People&#8217;s Deputy of Ukraine Oleksiy Goncharenko.<\/p>\n<p> Before the vote, Shmyhal noted three priorities: people, weapons and systems. He will try to fulfill the president&#8217;s task and increase the share of Ukrainian weapons at the front to 50%.<\/p>\n<p> His candidacy for this post was proposed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p> Let us recall that on July 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rada-pidtrymala-pryznachennia-svyrydenko-prem-ierkoiu-ukrainy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the appointment of Yulia Svyrydenko as Prime Minister of Ukraine<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> After this, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine supported the appointment of a new Cabinet of Ministers. The full composition can be seen at <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/verkhovna-rada-pryznachyla-novyy-sklad-uriadu-povnyy-spysok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the link<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Later, Petro Poroshenko, during the discussion of the Prime Minister\u2019s candidacy in the Verkhovna Rada, stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/koalitsii-nemaie-poroshenko-pid-chas-pryznachennia-prem-ier-ministra-zaiavyv-pro-porushennia-konstytutsii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the actual absence of the \u201cServant of the People\u201d coalition makes this vote unconstitutional<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Let us note that on July 15, Denis Shmyhal wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/shmyhal-ofitsiyno-podav-u-vidstavku-z-posady-prem-ier-ministra\/?preview_id=1260382&#038;preview_nonce=cd31b33fb3&#038;_thumbnail_id=1055654&#038;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement about his dismissal from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Subsequently, the Committee on the Organization of State Authority, Local Self-Government, Regional Development and Urban Planning <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/komitet-rady-pidtrymav-vidstavku-denysa-shmyhalia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at its meeting considered and approved the resignation of Denys Shmyhal from the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> By the way, President Volodymyr <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/maksymum-zavdan-i-bahato-vidpovidalnosti-zelenskyy-anonsuvav-novu-posadu-dlia-shmyhalia\/\">Zelensky officially confirmed that he offered the current Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal the position of Minister of Defense of Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> The day before, President Volodymyr <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yuliia-svyrydenko-mozhe-ocholyty-kabinet-ministriv\/\">Zelensky proposed that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Yulia Sviridenko head the Cabinet of Ministers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Subsequently, People&#8217;s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/masshtabne-onovlennia-kabminu-koho-zaminiat-u-ministerstvakh-16-lypnia\/\">an official change of government is expected on July 16, within the framework of which Yulia Svyrydenko will be nominated for the post of Prime Minister instead of Denys Shmygal<\/a> . The changes will affect a number of ministries, including the defense, economic and social blocs.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow &#8221; <strong>Pryamy<\/strong> &#8221; on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has appointed Denis Shmyhal as the new Minister of Defense. 267 people&#8217;s deputies voted for this decision. This was reported by the People&#8217;s Deputy of Ukraine Oleksiy Goncharenko. Before the vote, Shmyhal noted three priorities: people, weapons and systems. He will try to fulfill the president&#8217;s task and increase the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":919799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76894],"class_list":["post-1264462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}