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Volodymyr Groysman becomes Prime Minister of Ukraine

On 14 April 2016 the Verkhovna Rada voted 257 to 50 to appoint parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Groysman as prime minister and to accept the resignation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who had led the government since the February 2014 ousting of Viktor Yanukovych. Groysman told MPs that together they would make Ukraine successful.

Volodymyr Groysman (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 14 April 2016 the Verkhovna Rada voted 257 to 50 to appoint parliamentary speaker Volodymyr Groysman as prime minister and to accept the resignation of Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who had led the government since the February 2014 ousting of Viktor Yanukovych. Groysman told MPs that together they would make Ukraine successful.

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  1. 1.rada.gov.uachecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: groysman+prime minister · verified
  2. 2.archive.kyivpost.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: groysman+prime minister · verified
  3. 3.bbc.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: groysman+prime minister · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Volodymyr Groysman becomes Prime Minister of Ukraine. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/groysman-becomes-prime-minister-2016-04-14

https://factrail.ai/facts/groysman-becomes-prime-minister-2016-04-14

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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