Cabinet appoints 6 deputy ministers of defense, Havryliuk becomes first again

The Cabinet of Ministers has appointed 6 deputy ministers of defense, Ivan Havryliuk becomes first deputy again, and the following deputies have also been appointed: Serhii Boiev, Anna Hvozdiar, Volodymyr Zaverukha, Yurii Myronenko, Oksana Ferchuk. It was announced by the Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

54-year-old Lieutenant General Ivan Havryliuk has been appointed First Deputy Minister of Defense.

He already held the position of First Deputy Minister of Defense in May 2024 - April 2025, before that he was Deputy Minister of Defense from October 2023.

In April-August 2022, he was the head of the working group from Ukraine in the Coordination Headquarters for Assistance to Ukraine in Germany.

Previously, he was an advisor to the commander of the Logistics Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and head of the Main Logistics Department, as well as deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Serhii Boiev previously served as First Deputy Minister of Defense since April, and before that, as Deputy Minister of Defense for European Integration since October 2024.

Since 2023, he has held the positions of Advisor, and later Deputy Minister for European Integration at the Ministry for Strategic Industries.

He began his career as an analyst at international financial institutions JPMorgan Chase & Co and Credit Suisse in the UK, after returning to Ukraine he worked at Boston Consulting Group Ukraine, as well as in management positions at JSC UkrGasVydobuvannya and NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, where he was responsible for strategy, development and analytics.

Anna Hvozdiar has been Deputy Minister for Strategic Industries since September 2023.

From 2020 to 2023, she held the position of Director of the Serhii Prytula Charitable Foundation.

From 2015 to 2016, she worked as an advisor to the head of the Luhansk Military-Civil Administration.

Since 2014, she has been involved in initiatives related to the provision of troops, issues of Ukrainian prisoners of war and families of deceased servicemen.

Colonel Volodymyr Zaverukha has been the First Deputy Minister for Strategic Industries since May 2025.

He has 22 years of experience in military service and work in the defense sector, he began his service in 2006 in the engineering troops.

From 2020 to 2025, he held a number of senior positions in the Ministry of Defense, including Deputy Director of the Department of Military-Technical Policy, Development of Armaments and Military Equipment - Head of the Department of Development of Armaments and Military Equipment.

In 2017–2020, he served in the Department of Environmental Safety and Mine Action.

Major Yurii Myronenko has headed the Center for Innovation and Development of Defense Technologies of the Ministry of Defense since February, where he coordinated the implementation of the DELTA combat system.

From December 2024 to February 2025, he worked as Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation.

In 2023–2024, he headed the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection.

During the full-scale invasion, he defended Kyiv as part of the 112th Brigade of the Special Communications and Information Protection, from March to December 2023 he was the commander of the UAV unit of the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection, and participated in battles in the South of Ukraine.

Oksana Ferchuk is Deputy Minister of Defense for Digital Development, Digital Transformations, and Digitalization.

She worked as an advisor to the Minister of Defense in 2022, focusing on the digitalization of logistics processes, coordinated the implementation of the LOGFAS system, to which Ukraine received full access in 2022, the launch of the international cooperation platform "Korovai", ensured coordination of the implementation of the medical information system (MIS ASU) in the Medical Forces Command.

Coordinated the implementation of the logistics management system (SAP), in particular, the automation of the processes of supplying logistics (material assets, fuel and ammunition), supplying weapons (ground weapons systems, UAVs, electronic warfare), communications assets, medical supplies, and the automation of contract work.

Before the full-scale aggression, she was a top manager of well-known Ukrainian logistics and product services, in particular, the director of the Nova Poshta group of companies, the electronic public procurement platform (ProZorro reform), and the electronic document management service "Vchasno".

By orders dated July 25, the Cabinet of Ministers dismissed Deputy Defense Minister Valerii Churkin and Deputy Defense Minister for Digital Development, Digital Transformations and Digitalization Kateryna Chernohorenko.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on July 17, the Verkhovna Rada appointed Denys Shmyhal, who previously held the position of Prime Minister, as Minister of Defense in the new government of Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko.

From September 2023 to July 16, 2025, Rustem Umerov was the Minister of Defense.

On July 23, Chernohorenko announced that she was resigning from the Ministry of Defense.