abstract:The Prime Minister of Ukraine () is Ukraine's head of government presiding over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the Ukrainian government. The position replaced Soviet post of the Chairman of Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR that existed since March 25, 1946.
Ms Tymoshenko, a former primeminister and key rival of Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, is serving a seven-year jail sentence for abuse of office and faces another trial on tax evasion charges.
In two stints as primeminister, she reversed one of Ukraine's more controversial privatisations and scrapped an opaque intermediary in the gas trade between Russia and Ukraine.