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18/08/2026 – 9:13 GMT+2

Ukraine’s parliament returns to work on Tuesday after its summer break, reconvening with two of the government’s most sensitive wartime portfolios still without heads.

When the Verkhovna Rada voted in Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi’s new cabinet on 16 July, it approved every post except two: defence minister and foreign affairs minister.

For a month now, the defence ministry has been without permanent head, amid Russia’s intensifying ballistic missile attacks, an unusual situation for a country defending itself from the full-scale invasion for over four years.

Under Ukraine’s constitution only the president…

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