Parliamentary committee recommends appointing Umerov as defense minister
Ukrinform
The Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence has recommended appointing Rustem Umerov as Defense Minister of Ukraine.
Secretary of the committee Roman Kostenko (the Holos parliamentary faction) said this in a comment to Ukrinform.
"All members of the committee supported the appointment of Rustem Umerov as Minister of Defense of Ukraine," he said.
As reported by Ukrinform, on September 5, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Oleksii Reznikov from the post of Minister of Defense, and Rustem Umerov from the post of head of the State Property Fund.
Subsequently, President Volodymyr Zelensky tabled in the Verkhovna Rada a proposal to appoint Umerov as Minister of Defense.
