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What happened in Kyiv on 15 July 2025?
Summary
A look back at the reshuffle announced a day earlier and an espionage arrest that preceded it.
What was happening in Kyiv on 15 July 2025? The government was in transition. A day earlier, on 14 July 2025, President Zelensky announced a reshuffle of the cabinet and put forward Yuliia Svyrydenko as his nominee for prime minister.
According to the reports from the time, Denys Shmyhal, the outgoing prime minister, submitted his resignation on 15 July 2025, following the announcement. The Verkhovna Rada accepted it on 16 July, the next day.
A separate security case
A few days earlier, on 9 July 2025, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) arrested two Chinese nationals in Kyiv. They were suspected of collecting intelligence on the Neptune missile system.
The two developments were separate events, and the reports do not link them. Together they marked a week in which the Ukrainian capital saw both a change at the head of government and a counter-intelligence case.
