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At least five current ministers will keep their posts in Ukraine's new government, a source familiar with the course of the talks on forming the country's new cabinet told Interfax-Ukraine on Nov. 27. 

They include Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, Justice Minister Petro Petrenko, Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak and Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, the source said. Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak may be reappointed to the new cabinet as well.

Ukrainian deputy presidential chief-of-staff Dmytro Shymkiv is highly likely to receive the post of economic development and trade minister, while Leonid Kozachenko may become the country’s agricultural policy and food minister.

Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman, Avakov, Petrenko, Infrastructure Minister Maksym Burbak, Social Policy Minister Liudmyla Denisova, and Education and Science Minister Serhiy Kvit were elected to Ukraine’s parliament in the October 26 polls.