Zhelezniak predicts Rada will make number of personnel decisions in government on December 16-18

Member of the Voice faction Yaroslav Zhelezniak predicts that the Verkhovna Rada will make a number of personnel decisions regarding ministers in the government on December 16-18. Zhelezniak said this on his Telegram channel, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

"As for personnel decisions. Obviously, there will be none this week. But there will be a number of personnel decisions on December 16-18, during the last plenary week of the year," he said.

The MP noted that it will be necessary to dismiss a member of the government who will become the head of the President's Office instead of the dismissed Andrii Yermak, among the likely candidates for this position he names First Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov and Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal. It will also be necessary to fill the vacancy of the person who will become the head of the President's Office.

Zhelezniak also predicts two more dismissals: Minister of Education Oksen Lisovyi and Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction - Minister of Communities and Territories Development Oleksii Kuleba, and two appointments, respectively.

In addition, the Rada is to appoint the Minister of Energy Svitlana Hrynchuk and the Minister of Justice Herman Halushchenko to replace the previously dismissed ones, as well as to close the vacant position of the head of the State Property Fund, which has been vacant for 1.5 years.

According to Zhelezniak, two candidates are being considered for the post of Justice Minister: Denys Maslov, head of the Rada's Legal Committee, and deputy head of the Prosecutor General's Office Iryna Mudra.

According to the MP, there is no final candidate for the Minister of Energy yet, they are considering the head of the Energy Committee of the Rada Andrii Herus, but he allegedly does not agree to this position.

Zhelezniak also said that the head of the Economic Committee of the Rada, Dmytro Natalukha, is being actively discussed as the head of the State Property Fund.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, amid a corruption scandal in the energy sector, on November 19, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk and Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko, who served as Energy Minister in the government of Denys Shmyhal (April 2021-July 2025)

Also, on November 28, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the head of the Presidential Office, Andrii Yermak.