The ministers that retained their posts were: Deputy Prime Minister Roman Bezsmertniy, Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov, Coal Industry Minister Viktor Topolov, Agrarian Policy Minister Oleksandr Baranivskiy, Family, Children and Youth Minister Yuriy Pavlenko, Environmental Protection Minister Pavlo Ihnatenko, Science and Education Minister Stanislav Nikolayenko and Industrial Policy Minister Volodymyr Shandra.
Former Labor and Social Policy Minister Vyacheslav Kyrylenko was appointed a deputy prime minister, and regional administration head Viktor Baloga was appointed emergency situations minister.
The former Ukrainian government headed by Yuliya Tymoshenko was dismissed on September 8. Yury Yekhanurov, who previously headed the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration, was appointed acting premier. Parliament confirmed him as prime minister on September 22.
