{"id":1343814,"date":"2026-01-13T13:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-verkhovna-rada-dismissed-shmyhal-from-the-post-of-minister-of-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:46:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:46:27","slug":"the-verkhovna-rada-dismissed-shmyhal-from-the-post-of-minister-of-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-verkhovna-rada-dismissed-shmyhal-from-the-post-of-minister-of-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"The Verkhovna Rada dismissed Shmyhal from the post of Minister of Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday, January 13, dismissed Denys Shmyhal from the post of Minister of Defense of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This became known from the broadcast of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p> 265 deputies voted for this decision.<\/p>\n<p> In particular, Denys Shmyhal reported to parliamentarians before the vote on his resignation. He emphasized that during his tenure as the minister, the share of Ukrainian-made weapons on the front line was increased.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The special legal regime of Defence City has come into effect,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p> Shmyhal also reported on attracting record security assistance from partners &#8211; 30% more than a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-zaproponuvav-fedorovu-ocholyty-minoborony\/\">Zelenskyy proposed that Mykhailo Fedorov head the Ministry of Defense<\/a> of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> As is known, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-zaproponuvav-denysu-shmyhaliu-ocholyty-ministerstvo-enerhetyky\/\">Zelenskyy suggested that Denys Shmyhal head the Ministry of Energy<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> And already on January 9, the Minister of Digital Transformation <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fedorov-ta-shmyhal-podaly-zaiavy-pro-vidstavku-z-posad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mykhailo Fedorov and the Head of the Ministry of Defense Denys Shmyhal submitted their resignations<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday, January 13, dismissed Denys Shmyhal from the post of Minister of Defense of Ukraine. This became known from the broadcast of the meeting. 265 deputies voted for this decision. In particular, Denys Shmyhal reported to parliamentarians before the vote on his resignation. He emphasized that during his tenure as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1294288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873],"class_list":["post-1343814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343814","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=1343814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}