Meet Ukraine’s First Woman PM – Rising From The Rubble, She Now Takes The Helm Of A Wartime Nation | World News
The story so far: Kyiv woke up to a warm July morning when he was 17, and the sunlight is pouring on the golden dome of Verkhovna Rada. In front of the Parliament building, Yulia Svyrydenko is no longer a minister or an economic strategist, but now he has now taken his place as the new prime minister of Ukraine. A nation under the siege of war, a nation that is scared with loss and tested over time, turns into leadership with cautious hope.
He became the 19th Prime Minister of Ukraine at a decisive moment. When the end of June, Denys Shmyhal’s five -year term. After that, it is the transition of power, vision, sound and urgency. Svyrydenko is activated as a populist, not as a hurry, but as a calm and calculated technocrat. In the middle of the crisis, an economist is a founding and a problem solvent.
It has been decades for decades. Svyrydenko, who was born in 1985 on Christmas Day in Chernihiv, was a prominent student at Kiev’s State University of Trade and Economics. He started in the private sector in 2011 with his master’s degree in the field of Antitröst management. His first years saw that he sent him to China and later advised regional governments on economic growth.
Until 2019, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attracted attention. During the early peace dialogue, he brought him to a socio-economic working group and then raised him to the Vice President of the Presidency. In November 2021, he became Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister months before Russia’s full -scale occupation.
Then the war came.
Instead of retreating, he helped him go to one of the darkest periods of Ukraine. In 2022, he played a very important role in securing the US-Ukraine Re-Investment Fund, and opened a lock of financing to rebuild and touch Ukraine’s mineral reserve. This year he carried Ukraine’s case to Rome and promised to rescue 11 billion euros from Western partners.
President Zelenskyy officially nominated him on July 14th. Three days later he voted in favor of 262 parliamentary members. He was the first woman to lead the Ukrainian government during the war.
His duty is upright. Ukraine faces a 19 billion dollar financial hole. Artillery shells continue to fall. However, he has already put forward the war plan – deeper financial reforms, deregulation, privatization and forced to produce at least half of Ukraine’s military equipment in the country within six months. It aims to accelerate EU integration and deepen military ties with the US.
In his first message in X, “Our government leads to a military, economic and social Ukraine on its foundations. My key goal is to feel the real, positive results that every Ukrainian daily life will feel in daily life. War does not leave room for delay.”
It is a great honor for me to lead the Ukrainian government today.
Our government leads to a military, economic and social Ukraine on its foundations. My key goal is real, positive results that every ukrainian will feel in daily life.
War… pic.twitter.com/oytwmcp1s3– yulia svyrydenko (@svyrydenko_y) 17 July 2025
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