Rustem Umerov
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Rustem Enverovych Umerov is a Ukrainian politician, businessman, investor, philanthropist and has served as the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine since 3 August 2026. Previously, he
Official portrait, 2023
Rustem Umerov (right), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Kyiv on 26 February 2023
Umerov introduced as the minister of defense by President Zelenskyy (7 September 2023)
Umerov with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Kyiv, 20 November 2023
Oleksii Reznikov
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Oleksii Yuriiovych Reznikov is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Defence of Ukraine from 4 November 2021 until his dismissal on 5 September 2023. Reznikov previously has
Rustem Umerov
…diplomatic initiative. In September 2023, amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Umerov to replace Oleksii Reznikov as defense minister of Ukraine. Umerov was born in 1982 in Bulungʻur (then known as Krasnogvardeysk), Samarkand, in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic…
Official portrait, 2021
Reznikov meets with US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun in Kyiv on 26 August 2020
Reznikov, US President Joe Biden and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Warsaw, Poland on 26 March 2022