'Ministry needs new approaches': Zelenskiy replaces Oleksii Reznikov as defence minister

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has announced the replacement of his defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov, with Rustem Umerov in the most significant high-level change of the Ukrainian defence establishment since the onset of the war in February 2022. In his nightly video address Zelenskiy said that 'the ministry needs new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society at large' Rustem Umerov: who is Ukraine’s next defence minister? Volodymyr Zelenskiy sacks defence minister and lines up replacement