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Denys Anatoliiovych Shmyhal (, ; born 15 October 1975) is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who has served as the 18th and current prime minister of Ukraine since 2020. Before his appointment as prime minister, Shmyhal was the governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and an acting vice prime minister in the Honcharuk Government.
As Prime Minister, Shmyhal has been in charge of handling the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine and conducting the defense of Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion. As of 2025, he is the longest serving prime minister in Ukrainian history.
For the first four months of 2014, Shmyhal was a consultant to a People's Deputy of Ukraine (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. Bohdan Matkivskyi won in district No. 121 of the Lviv region, - 100% of the protocols of the CEC, RBC Ukraine (29 October 2014))
In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections Shmyhal was a candidate for the Lviv Oblast Council of . Although "People's Control" did win five seats in this regional parliament, Shmyhal himself did not get elected. Results. Central Electorate Commission
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. in Washington D.C., on April 21, 2022.]]
On 4 February 2020, he was appointed Minister of Regional Development. Ukraine's parliament appoints Shmyhal as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Community Development, UNIAN (4 February 2020)
In January 2024, Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention accused Shmyhal of exposing the identity of a Whistleblowing 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.
Prime Minister of Ukraine
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.
Personal life
Shmyhal is married to Kateryna Shmyhal. They have two daughters. Kateryna is a former co-owner of the Lviv “Kamyanetsky Bakery” and a local nextbike bike rental outlet. She sold her shares in these companies in 2019.
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