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The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskydismissed the Defense Minister on Sunday Oleksiy Reznikov and asked “a new approach” in the ministry, a year and a half after the start of the Russian invasion.
“I have decided to replace defense minister of ukraine”, Zelensky said in his daily intervention.
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“Oleksiy Reznikov it has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war. I think the ministry needs a new approach and other forms of interaction both with the military and with society in general.”, he added.
Reznikov, 56, took office three months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and led negotiations to equip his forces with modern weaponry from the allies.
His dismissal occurs in the midst of the counter-offensive launched by kyiv in June to liberate the occupied eastern and southern areas of its territory.
It also comes at a time when the authorities are intensifying their fight against corruption, at the request of the European Union.
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Zelensky appointed Rustem Umerov as the new head of the Defense portfolio.
“Now Rustem Umerov should be the head of the ministry” Defense, said the Ukrainian president. “I hope Parliament will support this candidate”, he continued.
Umerov is a Tatar, an ethnic group from the crimean peninsulaannexed by Moscow in 2014, and runs the State Property Fund since last year.
Source: Elcomercio
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