KYIV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian Parliament on Wednesday approved the appointment of Roustem Umerov as Defense Minister to replace Oleksii Reznikov, announced on Sunday evening by President Volodimir Zelensky, we learned from an elected official .
The latter, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, declared on Telegram that the appointment of the current director of the Ukrainian privatization agency had been approved by an overwhelming majority.
(Olena Harmash, Yuliia Dysa, French version Jean-Stéphane Brosse, editing by Nicolas Delame)
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