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 [uk]
Succeeded by	Olha Pishchanska[1]
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office 29 August 2019 – 7 September 2022
Constituency	Holos, No. 18
Personal details
Born	(1982-04-19) 19 April 1982 (age 42) Krasnogvardeysk, Samarkand Oblast, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan)
Nationality	Crimean Tatar
Political party	Holos
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. Umerov is a Muslim, and of Crimean Tatar origin.^[2][3]

Umerov is a former deputy head of the permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,^[4] 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 Zelenskiy named Umerov to replace Oleksii Reznikov as defense minister of Ukraine.^[5]