The agency indicates that the team of the Ministry of Economics under its leadership on April 30 concluded an agreement with Washington on the use of natural resources of Ukraine.
Sviridenko herself in an interview said that in the coming days she also plans to negotiate with the US Minister of Finance Scott Besent, with whom she intensively worked on an agreement on minerals in order to discuss possible financial assistance.
The new cabinet will also strive to cooperate with the United States in the field of weapons purchases, including Patriot air defense systems, and the joint production of drones, which may include the construction of plants in the United States for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles, she said.
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Since March 2020, the Ukrainian government has been headed by Denis Shmygal. He set a record for his stay in the position of Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Sviridenko will become the second woman in the history of Ukraine in this position (the first was Yulia Tymoshenko, who headed the government in 2005 and 2007-2010).
The Chairman of the Board of the Center for Applied Political Studies “Penta” Vladimir Fesenko called it one of the main contactors of Kyiv with the US administration. The Gordon publication examined her career and the political path in detail.
