# Ukraine has appointed a new government led by the first new prime minister in five years, tasked with boosting domestic weapons production and reviving Ukraine’s loan-dependent economy. The 39-year-old Yulia Svyrydenko climbed the ranks from local politics to deputy minister, then economy minister and now prime minister. Her cabinet includes two of her former deputies – Oleksiy Sobolev as minister of economy, agriculture and the environment, and Taras Kachka as a deputy prime minister for European integration. The previous prime minister Denys Shmyhal is the new defence minister.
Ukraine appoints new government in biggest wartime overhaul