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Mansur Mirovalev

Amid graft scandal, Ukraine to appoint Muslim defence chief Rustem Umerov

Rustem Umerov, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, attends peace talks with a Russian delegation in Gomel region, Belarus [File: Sergei Kholodilin/BelTA Pool Photo/via AP]

Kyiv, Ukraine – Ukraine’s recently sacked defence minister seems to have lost a bet.

In late August, Oleksii Reznikov said he would step down if the 233,000 winter jackets for troops that his ministry was expecting from Turkey would turn out to be light windbreakers.

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