Overview

• Yuliia Svyrydenko, currently vice prime minister, has been nominated as prime minister and is awaiting parliamentary confirmation that would make her the country’s second female premier.
• Denys Shmyhal will shift from prime minister to defense minister with a mandate to expand Ukraine’s domestic arms production.
• Rustem Umerov is expected to become Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States to reinforce ties with President Trump’s administration.
• Zelenski’s advisers describe the reshuffle as a means to inject fresh momentum into wartime governance and push through economic reforms.
• Opposition members have criticized the reshuffle as concentrating power in the presidency and showing signs of authoritarian governance under wartime conditions.