According to Zelensky, he expects that Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko, together with people’s deputies, “will provide Ukraine with three things in dialogue and unity.”
“The most important thing is to adopt the budget of the 26th year, that is, the ability of our state to defend itself, provide defense, provide all social benefits and the necessary stability. This is what the people need,” the president emphasized.
In addition, Zelensky is awaiting nominations for new ministers of energy and justice.
“The current ministers need to be assessed in such a way as to make very clear conclusions about whether the current officials meet the challenges of both this winter and this war,” the president said.
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On November 5, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine submitted the draft state budget for 2026 for the second reading. Sviridenko counted on its speedy adoption by the Rada.
At a meeting on November 19, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed German Galushchenko from the post of Minister of Justice, and Svetlana Grinchuk from the post of Minister of Energy. They lost their positions amid a corruption scandal at NNEGC Energoatom.
The faction of the ruling party “Servant of the People”, at a meeting with Zelensky on November 20, proposed the candidacy of the chairman of the parliamentary committee on legal policy, Denis Maslov, for the post of Minister of Justice, and the head of the Rada Committee on Energy Issues, Andrei Gerus, for the position of Minister of Energy, said People’s Deputy Maria Mezentseva-Fedorenko (“Servant of the People”). According to her, People's Deputy Yuri Kamelchuk also proposed his candidacy for the post of head of the Ministry of Energy.
