Overview

• He submitted draft resolutions to parliament seeking to install Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko as prime minister and reassign Denys Shmyhal to lead the Defense Ministry
• The nominations are designed to tighten defense procurement oversight and accelerate in-country production of arms and drones
• Svyrydenko has steered Ukraine’s economic recovery efforts, negotiated a U.S.–Ukraine mineral agreement and represented Kyiv in high-level defense cooperation talks
• Shmyhal resigned after more than five years as prime minister but retains a powerful wartime role by overseeing one of the government’s largest budgets
• The overhaul melds proven loyalists with new mandates in a bid to shore up Ukraine’s war economy under severe munitions shortages