{"id":1344320,"date":"2026-01-14T12:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fedorov-appointed-new-defense-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:46:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:46:54","slug":"fedorov-appointed-new-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/fedorov-appointed-new-defense-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedorov appointed new Defense Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appointed Mykhailo Fedorov as the new head of the Ministry of Defense.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This became known from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pNeCBmd6uqY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the broadcast<\/a> of the parliament session.<\/p>\n<p> 277 deputies voted for this decision.<\/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> In addition, the Verkhovna Rada supported the resignation<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fedorova-zvilnyly-z-posady-hlavy-mintsyfry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of Mykhailo Fedorov from the position of First Deputy Prime Minister &#8211; Minister of Digital Transformation<\/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 of Ukraine appointed Mykhailo Fedorov as the new head of the Ministry of Defense. This became known from the broadcast of the parliament session. 277 deputies voted for this decision. Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed that Mykhailo Fedorov head the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. As is known, Zelenskyy suggested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":613762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1344320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344320","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=1344320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}