Aleksey Reznikov is set to be replaced, the Ukrainian president has announced
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced on Sunday a plan to replace his defense minister, Aleksey Reznikov. This decision will be considered by the country’s parliament next week, Zelensky said in a video address.
The president proposed Rustem Umerov, the current head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, as a replacement.
Explaining his decision, Zelensky said the Defense Ministry “needs new approaches and new formats of interaction both with the military and society as a whole.” The president said that Umerov was “well-known” to the parliament and therefore did not require any further introduction.
“I expect the parliament to support this candidacy,” Zelensky stated.
Umerov, a Ukrainian businessman of Crimean Tatar origin, took the helm of the State Property Fund last fall. He had previously served as an adviser to the former chair of the so-called Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Mustafa Dzhemilev. The organization has been outlawed in Russia since 2016 over extremist activities and links to other extremist and terrorist groups.
Source: RT
