The new deputy ministers include Yuriy Dzhyhyr, former deputy finance minister in 2018-2020, Natalia Kalmykova, who most recently served as executive director of the Ukrainian Veteran Fund; and Kateryna Chernohorenko, head of Ukraine's "Army of Drones" project.

Rustem Umerov, who became defense minister three weeks ago, said his priorities are making the ministry the main institution for coordinating Ukrainian defense forces, enhancing the value attached to individual soldiers, developing Ukraine's military industry, and fighting corruption.