Denys Shmyhal

Denys Shmyhal
Денис Шмигаль
Shmyhal in 2023
18th Prime Minister of Ukraine
Assumed office
4 March 2020
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
DeputyOleksiy Lyubchenko
Yulia Svyrydenko
Preceded byOleksiy Honcharuk
Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Housing
In office
4 February 2020 – 4 March 2020[1]
Prime MinisterOleksiy Honcharuk
Preceded byAliona Babak
Succeeded byOleksiy Chernyshov
Governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
In office
1 August 2019 – 5 February 2020[2]
PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterVolodymyr Groysman
Oleksiy Honcharuk
Preceded byOleh Honcharuk
Succeeded byVitaliy Fedoriv (Acting)[3]
Personal details
Born (1975-10-15) 15 October 1975 (age 48)
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Lviv, Ukraine)
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
People's Movement "People's Control" (2015)
SpouseKateryna Shmyhal
Children2
EducationLviv Polytechnic
Occupation

Denys Anatoliiovych Shmyhal (Ukrainian: Дени́с Анато́лійович Шмига́ль, IPA: [deˈnɪs ɐ.nɐˈtɔ.lʲi.jɔʋɪt͡ʃ ʃmeˈɦalʲ]; born 15 October 1975)[4] is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who is the current Prime Minister of Ukraine since 2020.[5] Before his appointment as prime minister, Shmyhal was the governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and an acting vice prime minister in the Honcharuk Government.[6][7]

As Prime Minister, Shmyhal has been in charge of handling the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine and conducting the defense of Ukraine during the 2022 invasion.[8] Denys Shmyhal is the longest serving Prime Minister in Ukrainian history.

  1. ^ "Новий Кабмін Шмигаля – став відомим склад уряду - Кабінет Міністрів України - Верховна Рада | РБК-Україна". Rbc.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  2. ^ "Decree of the President of Ukraine № 38/2020". Office of the President of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  3. ^ (in Ukrainian) Zelensky has appointed a new head of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional State Administration, Ukrayinska Pravda (10 February 2020)
  4. ^ "Голова обласної державної адміністрації". www.if.gov.ua (30 October 2019 archived page via Wayback Machine) (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2019-10-30. Retrieved January 17, 2020.
  5. ^ "Шмигаль Денис Анатолійович". dovidka.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved January 17, 2020.
  6. ^ "Денис Шмигаль – новий прем'єр України". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-03-08.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Denys Schmygal zum neuen Premierminister ernannt". www.ukrinform.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-05.

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