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Denys Shmyhal
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| .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}Денис Шмигаль |
| Official portrait, 2025 |
| In office4 March 2020 – 17 July 2025 |
| Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
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| Oleksiy Honcharuk |
| Yulia Svyrydenko |
| Incumbent |
| Assumed office 14 January 2026 |
| Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
| Yulia Svyrydenko |
| Mykhailo Fedorov (as the First Deputy Prime Minister)Artem Nekrasov (as the Minister of Energy) (acting) |
| In office17 July 2025 – 13 January 2026 |
| Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
| Yulia Svyrydenko |
| Rustem Umerov |
| Mykhailo Fedorov |
| In office4 February 2020 – 4 March 2020 |
| Oleksiy Honcharuk |
| Aliona Babak |
| Oleksiy Chernyshov |
| In office1 August 2019 – 5 February 2020 |
| Volodymyr Zelenskyy |
| Volodymyr GroysmanOleksiy Honcharuk |
| Oleh Honcharuk |
| Vitaliy Fedoriv (acting) |
| (1975-10-15) 15 October 1975Lviv, Soviet Union |
| Independent |
| People's Control (2015) |
| Kateryna Shmyhal |
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| Lviv Polytechnic |
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Denys Anatoliiovych Shmyhal (born 15 October 1975) is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who served as the 18th prime minister of Ukraine from 2020 to 2025. He has served as the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and the Minister of Energy of Ukraine since 14 January 2026, previously serving as the minister of defence from 2025 to 2026, as governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast from 2019 to 2020 and as an acting deputy prime minister in the Honcharuk government.
As prime minister, Shmyhal was in charge of handling the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine and conducting the defense of Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion. On 15 July 2025, Shmyhal submitted his resignation, a day after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a government reshuffle and proposed replacing Shmyhal with Yulia Svyrydenko as prime minister. His tenure as prime minister of over five years was the longest in Ukrainian history. After Svyrydenko took office, he was appointed as the defence minister.
Shmyhal's parents are Anatolii Ivanovych and Iryna Feliksovna. In 1997, Shmyhal graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic university. He holds the PhD-equivalent title of Candidate of Economic Sciences (2003).
From his graduation in 1997 until September 2005, Shmyhal worked as an accountant in various companies. From September 2005 to June 2006, Shmyhal was Deputy General Director of a company called "LA DIS". From June 2006 to August 2008, he was Director for the investment company "Comfort-Invest". From September 2008 to September 2009, Shmyhal was General Director of a company called "Rosaninvest LLC".
Shmyhal worked in multiple leading political roles in Ukraine's Lviv Oblast from 2009 until December 2013. Firstly, as the Head of the Department of Economics at the Lviv Oblast Administration between 2009 and 2011. It is there where he met and worked with Oleh Nemchinov who would, in 2020, become Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Shmyhal Government. Shmyhal then became the Head of the Department of Economics and Industrial Policy for the whole of 2012. In 2013, he was Head of the Department of Economic Development, Investment, Trade and Industry.
For the first four months of 2014, Shmyhal was a consultant to a People's Deputy of Ukraine Roman Cherneha (from the party UDAR).
From May 2014 to December 2014, Shmyhal worked as Deputy Head of the Lviv Oblast regional office of the Ministry of Revenues and Duties.
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Shmyhal was an independent candidate in Ukraine's 121st electoral district, located in Lviv Oblast. He gained 188 votes. (Bohdan Matkivskyi won the district with 26,924 votes.)
In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections Shmyhal was a candidate for the Lviv Oblast Council of People's Movement "People's Control". Although "People's Control" did win five seats in this regional parliament, Shmyhal himself did not get elected.
He served as Vice President of Lviv-based frozen goods distributor TVK Lvivkholod from 2015 to 2017.
From 2018 to 2019, Shmyhal served as Director of the Burshtyn TES which is the largest electricity producer in Ivano-Frankivsk, and is part of Rinat Akhmetov's holdings.
From 1 August 2019 until his prime ministerial appointment, Shmyhal was the Governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
Shmyhal meets with President Joe Biden in Washington D.C., on 21 April 2022
On 4 February 2020, he was appointed Minister of Regional Development.
Shmyhal replaced Oleksiy Honcharuk as the prime minister of Ukraine in March 2020. In 2021, Shmyhal was included in the list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians, according to the weekly magazine Focus. He was ranked 7th in the list.
Shmyhal meets with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Kyiv, on 24 February 2023
Shmyhal and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte inspecting the damaged Darnytsia Combined Heat and Power Plant in Kyiv, 3 February 2026
In January 2024, Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention accused Shmyhal of exposing the identity of a whistleblower who had reported wrongdoing by the head of the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries. If Shymhal is found guilty of exposing the identity of a corruption whistleblower, he would be fined and denied the right to hold certain government positions for one year, and be included in the Unified State Register of persons who have committed corruption-related offenses. The prime minister's spokesperson responded, saying that it was not a whistleblower complaint about corruption, but rather, an appeal from an employee about their dissatisfaction with the work of the head of the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries and contained no information about anything pertaining to corruption. Shymhal received the appeal in September 2023, and had handled it according to protocol.
On 14 July 2025, Zelenskyy announced his plan to replace Shmyhal with Yulia Svyrydenko as prime minister as part of a government reshuffle; Zelenskyy suggested that Shmyhal might become defense minister. Shmyhal resigned as prime minister the next day, while the Verkhovna Rada accepted his decision on 16 July.
On 17 July 2025, the Verkhovna Rada approved Zelenskyy's proposal to appoint Shmyhal as Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
On 14 January 2026, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved Shmyhal as First Deputy Prime Minister — Minister of Energy of Ukraine.
Shmyhal is married to Kateryna Shmyhal. They have two daughters. Kateryna is a former co-owner of the Kamyanetsky Bakery in Lviv and a local Nextbike bike rental outlet. She sold her shares in these companies in 2019.
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