{"id":4789,"date":"2026-01-03T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/03\/ukraine-zelensky-nominates-mykhailo-fedorov-defense-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:30:19","slug":"ukraine-zelensky-nominates-mykhailo-fedorov-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/03\/ukraine-zelensky-nominates-mykhailo-fedorov-defense-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Proposes Deputy Prime Minister Fedorov as Ukraine&#8217;s New Defense Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that Mykhailo Fedorov, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, is being nominated as a candidate for the Ministry of Defense and will be presented to parliament for approval.<\/p>\n<p>According to Zelensky, if approved by the parliament, Fedorov will replace Denys Shmyhal as the head of the Ministry of Defense. He emphasized that this change is part of a broader review of Ukraine&#8217;s defense structure.<\/p>\n<p>In his nightly address, Zelensky expressed appreciation for Shmyhal&#8217;s performance during his term as Defense Minister and said that a new role within the government will be assigned to him. The details of this new position have not yet been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president also highlighted Fedorov&#8217;s capabilities in developing drone-related programs and digitizing the defense sector. He noted that Fedorov has played an active role in coordinating between the military, military command, domestic arms industries, and international partners.<\/p>\n<p>Fedorov has previously served as the Minister of Digital Transformation, and his appointment as Defense Minister now awaits a vote of confidence from the Ukrainian parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s President Zelensky nominates Deputy PM Mykhailo Fedorov for Defense Minister, replacing Denys Shmyhal pending parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}