Svitlana Hrynchuk

Svitlana Vasylivna Hrynchuk (; born 11 November 1985) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the Minister of Energy of Ukraine from 17 July 2025 until 19 November 2025. Previously, she has served as the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources from 2024 to 2025 in the government of Denys Shmyhal. From 2023 to 2024, she served as Deputy Minister of Energy. From 2022 to 2023, she served as Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources.

Early life Hrynchuk was born on 11 November 1985 in Chernivtsi, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR. She then, in 2013, defended her Candidate of Sciences thesis in economics. Her thesis was on the development of mortgages in agriculture in Ukraine. In 2019 she became an adviser to the Prime Minister of Ukraine, advising on environmental protection and climate change issues.

On 19 November 2025 Hrynchuk was officially dismissed as minister by the Verkhovna Rada, with 315 people's deputies voting for her removal. In 2022, Hrynchuk stopped mentioning him in official declarations. Together, they had one daughter, Yulia.