Zelenskyy made the announcement on his official Telegram account on Sunday (Monday AEST).
“I have decided to replace the Minister of Defence of Ukraine. Oleksii 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 Umierov should lead the Ministry,” he stated.
Umierov, 41, a politician with the opposition Holos get together, has served as head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine since September 2022.
He was concerned within the alternate of prisoners of warfare, political prisoners, kids and civilians, in addition to the evacuation of civilians from occupied territories. Umierov was additionally a part of the Ukrainian delegation in negotiations with Russia over the UN-backed grain deal.
The announcement got here after two folks have been hospitalised following a three-hour Russian drone barrage on a port in Ukraine’s Odesa area on Sunday, officers stated.
The assault on the Reni seaport got here as Russian President Vladimir Putin wsa making ready to fulfill together with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday to debate the resumption of meals shipments from Ukraine below a Black Sea grain settlement that Moscow broke off from in July.
Russian forces fired 25 Iranian-made Shahed drones alongside the Danube River within the early hours of Sunday, 22 of which have been shot down by air defences, the Ukrainian air power stated on Telegram.
Putin and Erdogan’s long-awaited assembly is because of happen in Sochi on Russia’s southwest coast on Monday.
Turkish officers have confirmed that the pair will focus on renewing the Black Sea grain initiative, which the Kremlin pulled out of six weeks in the past.
The deal — brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July 2022 — had allowed almost 33 million tonnes of grain and different commodities to go away three Ukrainian ports safely regardless of Russia’s warfare.
However, Russia broke away from the settlement after claiming {that a} parallel deal promising to take away obstacles to Russian exports of meals and fertiliser hadn’t been honoured.
Source: www.9news.com.au
