First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of the Cabinet of Ukraine. In the absence of the prime minister of Ukraine, the first vice prime minister performs their duties as the acting prime minister. In 1991, the post was grandfathered from the already existing first deputy chairman that was part of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

In an absence of the first vice prime minister, their functions are performed by other vice prime ministers who are members of the Cabinet of Ministers. Similarly to the prime minister, all official duties of the first vice prime minister are supported by the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Along with other members of the Cabinet of Ministers, a newly appointed first vice prime minister takes the same oath of office at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). According to Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine about the Cabinet of Ministers, a member of the Cabinet of Ministers (except the prime minister) who refuses to take the oath is considered to have refused to accept the post. Every newly appointed member of an already existing cabinet needs to take the oath at the next plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada.

List of first deputy prime ministers of Ukraine Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR No. Portrait Name Took office Left officeChairman Oleksandr Tkachenko July 1990 August 1990 Vitaliy Masol Anatoly Statynov 1990 1990 Kostyantyn Masyk August 1990 1992 Vitold Fokin

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine In April 1991 the Council of Ministers represented by existing government of Vitold Fokin and created by 12th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR was renamed into the Cabinet of Ministers. With adoption of the Act of Independence of Ukraine, the Ukrainian SSR was officially renamed into Ukraine. Because of the 1991 August Putsch in Moscow, the Communist Party was prohibited in Ukraine. In February 1992 there was adopted the new coat of arms. No. Portrait Name Took office Left officePrime minister(s) Kostyantyn Masyk August 1990 July 1992 Vitold Fokin Valentyn Symonenko July 1992 October 1992 Ihor Yukhnovskyi October 1992 March 1993 Leonid Kuchma Yukhym Zvyahilsky June 1993 July 1994 Viktor Pynzenyk 31 October 1994 August 1995 Vitaliy Masol Yevhen Marchuk 1994 8 June 1995 Pavlo Lazarenko September 1995 May 1996 Yevhen Marchuk Vasyl Durdynets June 1996 July 1997 Pavlo Lazarenko Anatoliy Holubchenko 8 August 1997 January 1998 Valeriy Pustovoitenko Volodymyr Kuratchenko January 1998 July 1999 Anatoliy Kinakh July 1999 1999 Yuriy Yekhanurov December 1999 May 2001 Viktor Yushchenko Oleh Dubyna May 2001 November 2002 Anatoliy Kinakh Mykola Azarov November 2002 April 2005 Viktor Yanukovych Anatoliy Kinakh August 2005 July 2006 Yulia Tymoshenko Stanislav Stashevsky April 2005 August 2005 Yuriy Yekhanurov Mykola Azarov July 2006 December 2007 Viktor Yanukovych Oleksandr Turchynov December 2007 11 March 2010 Yulia Tymoshenko Andriy Klyuyev 11 March 2010 14 February 2012 Mykola Azarov Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi 14 February 2012 24 December 2012 Serhiy Arbuzov 24 December 2012 27 February 2014 Vitaliy Yarema 27 February 2014 19 June 2014MPs agree to Yarema's appointment as prosecutor general, Interfax-Ukraine (19 June 2014) Arseniy Yatsenyuk Stepan KubivNew Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016) 14 April 2016 29 August 2019 Volodymyr Groysman Oleksiy Liubchenko 20 May 2021Rada appoints Liubchenko as First Dpty PM, Minister of Economy – 293 affirmative votes, Interfax-Ukraine (21 May 2021)3 November 2021Rada dismisses Liubchenko from post of First Dpty PM, Economy Minister, Interfax-Ukraine (3 November 2021)Denys Shmyhal Yulia Svyrydenko4 November 2021Rada appoints Svyrydenko as First Dpty PM, Economy Minister, Interfax-Ukraine (4 November 2021)17 July 2025 Mykhailo Fedorov17 July 202513 January 2026Yulia Svyrydenko27Denys Shmyhal14 January 2026Incumbent

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine

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