{"id":589766,"date":"2023-09-04T00:50:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T21:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/zelensky-to-replace-ukraines-wartime-defense-minister\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T00:50:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T21:50:29","slug":"zelensky-to-replace-ukraines-wartime-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/zelensky-to-replace-ukraines-wartime-defense-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"#Zelensky to replace Ukraine\u2019s wartime defense minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/ZelenskyVolodymyr_082023_APPhotoPeterDejong.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sunday that he would replace Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov with Rustem Umerov.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Zelensky said he thinks the ministry \u201cneeds new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roaches\u201d and noted Reznikov had served in the position for 550 days of \u201cfull-scale war.\u201d He also said he expects parliament to support Umerov.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cOleksiy Reznikov has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war. I believe that the Ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society at large. Now Rustem Umerov should lead the Ministry,\u201d Zelensky said in the Sunday statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine knows this person well, and Mr. Umerov does not need any additional introductions. I expect the Parliament to support this candidate,\u201d Zelensky continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shakeup would be the largest in the ministry since the start of the war in early 2022. The Ministry of Defense has been plagued with accusations of mishandling military contracts, which have avoided Reznikov personally but\u00a0reportedly\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/03\/world\/europe\/zelensky-ukraine-defense-minister.html\">have left many skeptical<\/a> about Reznikov\u2019s fate amid a crackdown on public corruption.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ti-ukraine.org\/en\/news\/rustem-umerov-new-chairman-of-state-property-fund\/\">Umerov was\u00a0appointed<\/a>\u00a0by the Verkhovna Rada to be chairman of Ukraine\u2019s State Property Fund in September 2022. He was\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ti-ukraine.org\/en\/news\/rustem-umerov-new-chairman-of-state-property-fund\/\">tasked\u00a0to lead the processes<\/a> of privatization and lease in the state, with a focus on transparency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine launched a counteroffensive earlier this summer, which had seen slower progress before picking up in recent weeks, raising hopes in the West of a breakthrough. Ukraine\u00a0broke\u00a0through major Russian defense lines in the southeastern region late last week, a significant step forward in the counteroffensive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The counteroffensive is being waged on several fronts, and Russia has launched its own counteroffensive toward cities in the northeast, but troops face stiff resistance from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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In a statement, Zelensky said he thinks the ministry \u201cneeds new approaches\u201d and noted Reznikov had served in the position for 550 days of \u201cfull-scale war.\u201d He also said he expects parliament to support Umerov. \u201cOleksiy Reznikov&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/ZelenskyVolodymyr_082023_APPhotoPeterDejong.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[134344,134343,133498,115,134904,5019,134345,100713],"class_list":["post-589766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-administration","tag-campaign","tag-in-the-know","tag-news","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-space","tag-state-watch","tag-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}