Medianews.az reports that no elections have been held in Ukraine for six years.
The first round of the 2019 presidential election took place on March 31, and in the second round on April 21, Volodymyr Zelenski won; on July 21, the parliament – the Verkhovna Rada – was elected. Local elections were scheduled for October 25, 2020.
The parliamentary election scheduled for October 29, 2023, the presidential election scheduled for March 31, 2024, and the local elections scheduled for October 26, 2025, have been postponed.
According to the country’s constitution, the government is formed by the parliament. The president nominates the candidates for prime minister, foreign affairs, and defense ministers, while the prime minister nominates the other government members.
Since July 17, 2025, Yuliya Svyrydenko has been the prime minister.
The Verkhovna Rada, which has 450 seats, currently has 395 members.
The Servant of the People Party, affiliated with Volodymyr Zelenski, and its allies hold 290 seats. Since October 8, 2021, Ruslan Stefanchuk, a member of the Servant of the People Party, has been the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada.
Since the restoration of independence in 1991, five more persons have been elected president of Ukraine, and one person has temporarily exercised the powers of the head of state.
In 1991, Leonid Kravchuk; in 1994 and 1999, Leonid Kuchma; and in 2004, Viktor Yushchenko received presidential mandates.
Viktor Yanukovych, elected president on February 7, 2010, was removed from office by parliamentary decision on February 22, 2014; powers of the head of state were transferred to the parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Turchynov, and in the early election held on May 25, Petro Poroshenko was elected president.
Immediately after the change of power in Ukraine following a popular uprising in February 2014, Russia occupied the Crimean Peninsula, annexing the region on March 18 under the names of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol; it also occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, establishing occupying regimes. On February 21, 2022, Russia recognized the Donetsk and Luhansk regimes as “independent states,” launched total military operations in Ukraine from February 24, recognized the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions as “sovereign and independent” entities on September 29, and on October 5 declared the annexation of those regions as well as the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.