The prime minister of Ukraine (, ) is Ukraine's head of government presiding over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the Ukrainian government. Unlike the president of Ukraine, who is directly elected by popular vote every five years, the prime minister is appointed by the president upon ratification of the candidate by the parliament, Verkhovna Rada.
The post of prime minister was originally introduced in the Ukrainian People's Republic, which was initially a parliamentary republic without a head of state, and was later headed by a collective organ, the Directorate. During the Soviet period, the post of head of state was de-facto held by the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, making the position of prime minister largely ceremonial. Since Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been 18 prime ministers. The longest-serving prime minister of Ukraine was Denys Shmyhal, who kept that post from 2020 to 2025.
The office is currently held by Serhii Koretskyi after his nomination was approved by the Verkhovna Rada on 14 July 2026.
List of officeholders Ukrainian People's Republic (19171918)
Portrait Name Term of office Political party Government(s) Cabinet Composition Head of state Took office Left office Time in office Head of the General Secretariat 1 Volodymyr Vynnychenko 28 June 1917 26 August 1917 USDP Vynnychenko IUSDRPUPSRFareynikteBundAKPUPSF MykhailoHrushevsky – Dmytro Doroshenko 27 August 1917 31 August 1917 UPSF DoroshenkoUSDRPUPSRFareynikteBundAKPUPSF (1) Volodymyr Vynnychenko 1 September 1917 22 January 1918 USDRP VynnychenkoIIUSDRPUPSFUPSRFareynikteUPSIBundAKPNSP Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers 1 Volodymyr Vynnychenko 22 January 1918 31 January 1918 USDRP VynnychenkoIIUSDRPUPSFUPSRFareynikteUPSIBundAKPNSP MykhailoHrushevsky 2 Vsevolod Holubovych 31 January 1918 29 April 1918 UPSR HolubovychUPSRUPSIUSDRP
Ukrainian State (1918)
Portrait Name Term of office Political party Government(s) Cabinet Composition Hetman Took office Left office Time in office Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Mykola Vasylenko 30 April 1918 4 May 1918 K-D VasylenkoConstitutional Democratic Party PavloSkoropadskyi 1 Fedir Lyzohub 4 May 1918 14 November 1918 Octobrist Lyzohub IOctobristK-DUPSF Lyzohub IIOctobristK-DUPSFUNU 2 14 November 1918 14 December 1918 Independent GerbelOctobristK-DUPSF
Ukrainian People's Republic (restored; 19181921)
Portrait Name Term of office Political party Elected Government(s) Cabinet Composition Head of state Took office Left office Time in office Chairman of the Council of Ministers 1 Volodymyr Chekhivskyi 26 December 1918 13 February 1919 USDRP 1918 ChekhivskyUSDRPUPSRUNDOUPSIPoale ZionTheDirectorate 2 Serhiy Ostapenko 13 February 1919 9 April 1919 Independent OstapenkoUPSFUPSIUNDO 3 Borys Martos 9 April 1919 27 August 1919 USDRP MartosUSDRPUPSRURPPoale Zion 4 Isaak Mazepa 29 August 1919 6 May 1920 USDRP MazepaUSDRP 5 Viacheslav Prokopovych 26 May 1920 18 March 1921 UPSF ProkopovychUSDRPUPSF
Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (19201992)
Portrait Name Term of office Political party Note(s) Head of state Took office Left office Time in office Prime minister 1 Andriy Livytskyi() 18 November 1920 24 May 1921 USDRP Resided in Paris SymonPetliura() 2 Viacheslav Prokopovych 24 May 1921 5 August 1921 Independent Resided in Paris 3 Pylyp Pylypchuk() 5 August 1921 14 January 1922 USDRP Resided in Paris 4 Andriy Livytskyi() 14 January 1922 25 May 1926 USDRP Resided in Paris (2) Viacheslav Prokopovych 25 May 1926 October 1939 Independent Resided in Paris AndriyLivytskyi() 5 Oleksander Shulhyn October 1939 May 1940 Independent Resided in Paris 6 Andrii Yakovliv 1944 1945 years Independent Resided in Prague 7 Kost Pankivskiy 1945 1948 years Resided in Munich 8 Isaak Mazepa 19 June 1948 18 March 1952 Ukrainian Socialist Party Resided in Munich AndriyLivytskyi 9 Stepan Baran 18 March 1952 4 June 1953 UNDO Resided in Munich Vacant (4 June 1953 – 1954) 10 Spyrydon Dovhal 1954 1954 years Ukrainian Socialist Party Resided in Munich StepanVytvytskyi 11 Symon Sozontiv 1954 1957 years Independent Resided in Munich 12 Mykola Livytskyi 1957 22 March 1967 years Resided in Munich 13 Atanas Figol 22 March 1967 1969 years Independent Resided in Munich MykolaLivytskyi 14 Spyrydon Dovhal 1969 1972 years Ukrainian Socialist Party Resided in Munich 15 Vasyl Fedoronchuk 1972 1974 years UNDO Resided in Munich 16 Teofil Leontiy 1974 1980 years Independent Resided in Munich 17 Jaroslav Rudnyckyj 1980 1989 years Independent Resided in Munich 18 Ivan Samiylenko 1989 22 August 1992 years Resided in Munich; transferred his duties to Vitold Fokin as prime minister of independent Ukraine. Mykola Plaviuk
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (19221991)
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During the Soviet period a head of state in Ukraine (as in any other union republic) was a chair-person of the Central Executive Committee and after 1938 a chair-person of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Verkhovna Rada). Portrait Name Term of office Political party Elected Government(s) Central Executive Committee Took office Left office Time in office Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars – Christian Rakovsky 16 January 1919 30 December 1922 rowspan=2 KPU Rakovsky I GrigoryPetrovsky 1 30 December 1922 15 July 1923 Rakovsky II 2 Vlas Chubar 15 July 1923 28 April 1934 KPU Chubar 3 Panas Liubchenko 28 April 1934 30 August 1937 KPU Liubchenko 4 Mykhailo Bondarenko 31 August 1937 13 October 1937 KPU Bondarenko – Mykola Marchak 13 October 1937 21 February 1938 KPU Bondarenko 5 Demyan Korotchenko 1938 1939 KPU 1937 Korotchenko I LeonidKorniyets 6 Leonid Korniyets 6 August 1939 20 August 1941 KPU 1939 Korniyets MykhailoHrechukha 1941 1944 7 Nikita Khrushchev 16 February 1944 29 August 1944 KPU Khrushchev 29 August 1944 4 March 1947 Chairman of the Council of Ministers (5) Demyan Korotchenko 4 March 1947 15 January 1954 KPU 1947 Korotchenko II 1951 8 Nikifor Kalchenko 15 January 1954 28 February 1961 KPU — Kalchenko DemyanKorotchenko 1955 1959 9 Volodymyr Shcherbytsky 28 February 1961 28 June 1963 KPU Shcherbytsky I 10 Ivan Kazanets 28 June 1963 22 October 1965 KPU 1963 Kazanets (9) Volodymyr Shcherbytsky 22 October 1965 8 June 1972 KPU — Shcherbytsky II 1967 OleksandrLiashko 1971 11 Oleksandr Liashko 8 June 1972 10 July 1987 KPU — Liashko I IvanHrushetsky 1975 1980 Liashko II OleksiyVatchenko 1985 ValentynaShevchenko 12 Vitaliy Masol 10 July 1987 23 October 1990 KPU Masol I 13 Vitold Fokin 23 October 1990 18 April 1991 KPU Fokin LeonidKravchuk
Ukraine (1991–present)
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The concept of "government coalition" was reverted in 2014 by reestablishment of the 2004 constitutional amendments. Before 2004 and between 2010 and 2014, the government was based on "parliamentary majority".
Portrait Name Term of office Political party Elected Government(s) Cabinet Composition President Took office Left office Time in office Prime Minister 1 Vitold Fokin 18 April 1991 2 October 1992 Independent FokinIndependents LeonidKravchuk — Valentyn Symonenko 2 October 1992 13 October 1992 Independent Symonenko CaretakerCaretaker government 2 Leonid Kuchma 13 October 1992 22 September 1993 Independent KuchmaIndependents — Yukhym Zvyahilsky 22 September 1993 16 June 1994 Independent Zvyahilsky CaretakerCaretaker government 3 Vitaliy Masol 16 June 1994 1 March 1995 Independent 1994 Masol IIIndependents LeonidKuchma 4 Yevhen Marchuk 1 March 1995 28 May 1996 Independent MarchukIndependents 5 Pavlo Lazarenko 28 May 1996 2 July 1997 Independent Lazarenko IIndependents Lazarenko II — Vasyl Durdynets 2 July 1997 30 July 1997 Independent — Durdynets CaretakerCaretaker government 6 Valeriy Pustovoitenko 30 July 1997 22 December 1999 People's Democratic Party 1998 PustovoitenkoNDPHromadaPRP 7 Viktor Yushchenko 22 December 1999 29 May 2001 People's Democratic Party YushchenkoNDPBatkivshchynaPRP 8 Anatoliy Kinakh 29 May 2001 21 November 2002 Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs KinakhNDPBatkivshchynaPRPPPUNPTU 9 Viktor Yanukovych 21 November 2002 5 January 2005 Party of Regions 2002 Yanukovych IFor United Ukraine!(PRNDPPPPUNPTU) — Mykola Azarov 5 January 2005 24 January 2005 Party of Regions Azarov caretaker Caretaker government 10 Yulia Tymoshenko 24 January 2005 8 September 2005 All-Ukrainian Union"Fatherland" Tymoshenko IOur Ukraine BlocYulia Tymoshenko BlocPPPUSPU ViktorYushchenko 11 Yuriy Yekhanurov 8 September 2005 4 August 2006 Our Ukraine YekhanurovOur Ukraine BlocSPU 12 Viktor Yanukovych 4 August 2006 18 December 2007 Party of Regions 2006 Yanukovych IIGovernment of National Unity(PRSPUKPUYulia Tymoshenko BlocOur Ukraine Bloc) 13 Yulia Tymoshenko 18 December 2007 4 March 2010 All-Ukrainian Union"Fatherland" 2007 Tymoshenko IIFatherlandOur UkrainePRPRukhPPNS — Oleksandr Turchynov 4 March 2010 11 March 2010 All-Ukrainian Union"Fatherland" Turchynov caretaker I Caretaker government ViktorYanukovych 14 Mykola Azarov 11 March 2010 28 January 2014 Party of Regions Azarov IPRLytvyn BlocSUYTSPU Azarov IIPRU-V — Serhiy Arbuzov 28 January 2014 22 February 2014 Party of Regions Arbuzov caretaker Caretaker government — Oleksandr Turchynov 22 February 2014 27 February 2014 All-Ukrainian Union"Fatherland" Turchynov caretaker II Caretaker government 15 Arseniy Yatsenyuk 27 February 2014 14 April 2016 All-Ukrainian Union"Fatherland" (Feb–Sep 2014) 2014 Yatsenyuk IFatherlandSvoboda PetroPoroshenko People's Front(2014–2016) Yatsenyuk IISolidarityPFSelf RelianceRPFatherland 16 Volodymyr Groysman 14 April 2016 29 August 2019 Petro Poroshenko Bloc"Solidarity" GroysmanSolidarityPF VolodymyrZelenskyy 17 Oleksiy Honcharuk 29 August 2019 4 March 2020 Servant of the People 2019 HoncharukSP 18 Denys Shmyhal 4 March 2020 17 July 2025 Independent ShmyhalSPIndependents 19 Yulia Svyrydenko 17 July 2025 16 July 2026 Independent SvyrydenkoSPIndependents 20 Serhii Koretskyi 16 July 2026 Incumbent Independent KoretskyiSPIndependents
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See also List of leaders of Ukraine President of Ukraine List of presidents of Ukraine
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