Shmyhal may be replaced by Svyrydenko. Why Yermak needed his own man to head the Cabinet of Ministers

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal may be dismissed as early as July 2025. Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, is considered as the main candidate for his replacement, who is called "the man of Yermak " (head of the Presidential Office). About this LIGA.net to analyze "Yulia the second". Bankova is preparing Shmyhal's resignation – who can become the new prime minister: all about rotations" reported by MPs.

As noted by MP from Holos Yaroslav Zheleznyak, , the entire government, headed by Prime Minister.

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"Svyrydenko will take Shmyhal's place, so the entire government should change. Could some ministers be reappointed to their own positions? Of course they can," he says .

An unnamed source in the Servant of the People faction told LIGA.net, that by appointing Svyrydenko, who is close to the President's Office, Yermak wants to "consolidate the government".

"Denys is not his man. Yermak feels that he has lost in domestic politics while he was busy saving Ukraine abroad. He is underperforming in the Office, and that's why Zelensky now delegates a lot to [Deputy Head of the Office] Tatarov," the source says.

Svyrydenko is called "more adventurous" than Shmyhal, who has recently been careful not to turn the cases he has been assigned into "procedural cases".

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"She is 200 percent Yermak's man," Volodymyr Ariev, a deputy from the opposition Eurosolidarity party, said in a commentary to LIGA.net

According to him, the current Cabinet of Ministers does not actually make independent decisions. All key decisions are made by the President's Office.

"The government apparatus functions under the direct leadership of Yermak and Zelensky. It is not an autonomous executive structure, but rather a tool for implementing the policy that is formed in the presidential vertical," Ariev noted .

Serhiy Vlasenko , an oppositionist from Batkivshchyna , noted that the current government appoints only those people it has tested and knows. According to him, the name of the prime minister is not important, because today his powers are being exercised by the president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

One of the leaders of the Servant of the People faction said that Sviridenko "does not reach" the post of prime minister, but can take it with "passion".

"The downside is that she is a bad bureaucrat. Svyrydenko will have a challenge in terms of MPs. They do not want to vote for reforms. But she is more in line with Zelensky's expectations of a prime minister during the war," he said .

At the same time, Zheleznyak believes that Svyrydenko should be dismissed, not replaced. He assesses her performance over the past six years as "absolutely disastrous.".

"We have received nothing but PR, mindless fulfillment of all the populist whims of the President's Office and very careful recording of all this in a notebook. I'm not talking about how she blocked the normal law on BES," the MP noted .

• on June 20, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denied preparations for Shmyhal's resignation. He said that if he had planned to replace the prime minister, he would have informed him first. But such a conversation never took place..
• Interlocutors LIGA.net said that Shmyhal will be criticized for the failure of the economy – this is the likely reason for his dismissal. It could happen on July 8-10 or 15.