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Only 35 years old and with just three months of government experience, Oleksiy Honcharuk has become Ukraine’s youngest-ever prime minister amid a stalling economy and war in the east.

Ukraine’s new president, 41-year-old Volodymyr Zelensky, himself a political novice and a popular comedian before winning April’s election, nominated Honcharuk on Aug. 29 after weeks of consultations.

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