{"id":6835,"date":"2023-09-06T19:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2023-09-06T19:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:36:47","slug":"ukraine-parliament-approves-umerov-as-new-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/world\/ukraine-parliament-approves-umerov-as-new-defence-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine parliament approves Umerov as new defence minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukraine&#8217;s parliament on Wednesday approved President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s nomination of Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar, as Kyiv&#8217;s new defence minister after the resignation of Oleksiy Reznikov.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 41-year-old&#8217;s appointment marks a significant change for Kyiv&#8217;s military establishment a year and a half into Russia&#8217;s invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Parliament approved Rustem Umerov as the Defence Minister of Ukraine,&#8221; senior lawmaker Yaroslav Zheleznyak said on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He posted a photograph of the voting board, showing 338 out of 360 lawmakers voted in favour of Umerov&#8217;s nomination<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelensky nominated Umerov for the role calling for &#8220;new approaches&#8221; in Ukraine&#8217;s defence ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Umerov replaces Reznikov, who held the role throughout Moscow&#8217;s invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A former businessman, Umerov has taken part in prisoner exchange negotiations and grain deal talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is active in the Tatar Muslim community of Crimea, annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is the highest state post ever held by a Tatar (from Crimea),&#8221; Sergiy Leshchenko, an advisor to the presidential administration, told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tatar community of Crimea has largely been against Russia&#8217;s annexation of the peninsula.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s parliament on Wednesday approved President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s nomination of Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar, as Kyiv&#8217;s new defence minister after the resignation of Oleksiy Reznikov. The 41-year-old&#8217;s appointment marks a significant change for Kyiv&#8217;s military establishment a year and a half into Russia&#8217;s invasion. &#8220;Parliament approved Rustem Umerov as the Defence Minister of Ukraine,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,342,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}