Rustem Umerov

Rustem Umerov
Rustem Umerov
Рустем Умєров
	Umerov in 2023
18th Minister of Defense
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 6 September 2023
President	Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime Minister	Denys Shmyhal
Preceded by	Oleksii Reznikov
Head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine
	In office; 7 September 2022 – 5 September 2023
Preceded by	Dmytro Sennychenko
Succeeded by	Olha Pishchanska
People's Deputy of Ukraine
	In office; 29 August 2019 – 7 September 2022
Constituency	Holos, No. 18
Personal details
Born	19 April 1982 (age 43); Krasnogvardeysk, Samarkand Oblast, Soviet Union; (now Uzbekistan)
Nationality	Crimean Tatar
Political party	Holos
Children	3 (son, daughters).
Education	National Academy of Management; Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

Rustem Enverovych Umerov (Ukrainian: Рустем Енверович Умєров, Crimean Tatar: Rüstem Enver oğlu Ümerov; born 19 April 1982) is a Ukrainian politician, businessman, investor, philanthropist and the current Defence Minister of Ukraine. Member of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

Umerov is a former deputy head of the permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,^[3] a delegate of the Qurultay of the Crimean Tatar People, and an adviser to former Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People chair Mustafa Dzhemilev. Since December 2020, Umerov has also co-chaired the Crimea Platform 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.^[4]

^ "Ukrainian parliament appoints Kyrylenko as Anti-Monopoly Committee Head". Ukrainska Pravda. 6 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
^ "Досьє: Умєров Рустем Енверович". Українські новини (in English – Dossier: Umerov Rustem Enverovych). Retrieved 22 December 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ "UMEROV, RUSTEM". pace.coe.int.
^ "Volodymyr Zelenskiy sacks defence minister and lines up replacement". The Guardian. 3 September 2023.