{"id":54913,"date":"2025-07-17T10:43:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ukrainian-president-nominates-former-pm-as-new-defense-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:43:08","slug":"ukrainian-president-nominates-former-pm-as-new-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ukrainian-president-nominates-former-pm-as-new-defense-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian president nominates former PM as new defense minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Today, I have already signed documents to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine regarding Denys Shmyhal as the new defense minister,&#8221; Zelensky said in a post on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky also announced that Herman Smetanin, minister of strategic industries, will head the country&#8217;s state defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom.<\/p>\n<p>Shmyhal said on Tuesday he had submitted a resignation letter, as part of the country&#8217;s governmental reshuffle. Earlier in the day, the parliament approved Shmyhal&#8217;s resignation, which triggered the resignation of the entire government in accordance with Ukrainian law.<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing cabinet will continue to exercise its duties until a new government is formed. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-91070\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/000a0869000a0869-9620d-2.jpg\" alt=\"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday proposed to the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, to appoint former Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal as the country&#039;s new defense minister.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday proposed to the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, to appoint former Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal as the country&#8217;s new defense minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000091071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000091071,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000a0869000a0869-9620d-2.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000a0869000a0869-9620d-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000a0869000a0869-9620d-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000a0869000a0869-9620d-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000a0869000a0869-9620d-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/000a0869000a0869-9620d-2.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000091071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54913"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54913"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}